Delhi Police, Special Cell, Southern Range Busted Drug Trafficking Racket

A team of officers of Special Cell, Southern Range under the supervision of Sh. Satyavir Singh, ACP, Special Cell, Southern Range led by Inspector Rahul sawhney and Insp Rajendera Sehrawat has arrested a Nigerian National, namely Paul Anthony s/o Anthony r/o 1022/2, A-Block Mahipalpur, New Delhi, involved in trafficking of Heroin and recovered 426 Gms. of fine quality of Heroin from his possession. Paul Anthony was earlier arrested in Case FIR No. 62/08 u/s 21/27/29 NDPS Act, PS Special Cell in which 13 gms of Cocaine was recovered from his possession. After getting bail in Case FIR No. 62/08, he jumped the bail out and subsequently declared Proclaimed Offender.

          A specific information was received by SI Deepak Kumar of the team on 13/12/14 at about 01:45 PM that one person namely, Paul Anthony(Nigerian National), who is Proclaimed Offender in a case registered at Special Cell would come today at about 4.00 PM Mahipalpur bye pass, Near Arjun Camp, opposite Mahipalpur Village, New Delhi to deliver a consignment of narcotic drugs. Acting upon this information a raid was conducted at Mahipalpur bye pass, Near Arjun Camp, Opposite Mahipalpur Village, New Delhi and a Nigerian National Paul Anthony was apprehended. After observing all the legal proceedings 426 gms of “Heroin” in a polythene packet wrapped with brown tape was recovered from his right hand side pocket of inner blue colour pant. As Nigerian National Paul Anthony was in possession of Narcotics drugs and committed the offence u/s 21 NDPS Act, therefore, he was arrested. 

During interrogation accused Paul Anthony disclosed that he was born at Lagos, Nigeria in 1956. He completed his civil engineering (BE) from Lagos. First time he visited India in 1984 on a tourist visa. He got the same extended several times and visited India many times. In 1989 he again came to India and married with one Devjani @ Sunita @ Geerjani @ sweety, an Indian Girl. She used to work in British Consulate, Nariman Point Mumbai, India. He started doing some small scale business of export of cloth as a mediator between the new comers of Nigeria and other visitors of South African countries, who used to visit India for the purpose of cloth business. He used to take commission from them.

 

In the year of 2007 he came in contact of some Nigerian youths who were indulged in drug trafficking in India. They told him that this is the good business for easy earnings. Therefore he also indulged in these illegal activities. He used to get the drugs from his Afghanistan, Pakistan and Dubai based drug syndicates and supplying to local contacts who might have been supplying to actual consumers. After some time he was caught in 2008 and was sent to jail. After getting bail from the court he jumped the bail out and again indulged in the same trade of drugs. He is a regular supplier of drugs.