Bengaluru City Police have in three different cases arrested four drug peddlers, including two African nationals, and recovered ₹2.86 crore worth narcotics in the past few days.
In the first case, Bommanahalli Police, acting on a tip-off of African national peddling drugs in their area, raided the residence of Seka Ghislain, 33, hailing from Ivory Coast on Thursday and recovered 2.024 kg of MDMA crystals, a mobile phone, and an electronic weighing machine worth ₹2 crore. The accused had come on a business visa in 2022 and had been doing clothes business in Delhi and Mumbai, but later came to Bengaluru and allegedly started peddling drugs. He was arrested in a narcotics case in 2022 by Shankarapuram Police and had been out on bail and resorted to the same business. His network and clientele are under probe.
In another case, acting on a tip-off that a foreign national had been selling narcotics to youth in the BBMP Grounds, Thyagaraja Nagar C.K. Achukattu Police raided the ground and arrested Kailikta Job Kaumeuru, 36, hailing from Kenya and a resident of HBR Layout in the city and recovered 81 grams of Cocaine worth ₹6.5 Lakh. The incident happened on April 1. He had come to India on a student visa and had taken to peddling drugs, police said.
