This Article is From Aug 12, 2013

Drugs worth one crore rupees seized in Madhya Pradesh; one Nigerian among three arrested

Indore: Indore police claimed to have busted an international gang of drug peddlers with the arrest of three persons, including a Nigerian and a woman, and seized brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore.

Acting on a tip-off, police nabbed three members of the gang from a hotel in Indore yesterday, police sources said today.

The three accused were identified as Jones Olivers, a Nigerian, Poonam from Delhi and Praveen Rajguru from Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district.

Rajguru had arrived in Indore with 509 gram of brown sugar, valued at Rs 1 crore in the international market, from Mandsaur to deliver it to Olivers and Poonam, both of whom had come to the hotel from New Delhi, the sources said.

According to them, Poonam worked as an interpreter. Efforts were on to find out their other links.

Nigeria's embassy in New Delhi is being contacted to find out more details about Olivers, said police.

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