India, July 13 -- Panchkula The anti-narcotics cell of the Panchkula police has arrested a Nigerian national allegedly involved in an interstate cocaine trafficking network. Police said the accused had been supplying cocaine for nearly five years while using a clothing and footwear business in Delhi as a front to conceal his illegal activities. The arrest came during the investigation of an NDPS Act case registered at Chandimandir police station, officials said.

Deputy commissioner of police (crime) Amrinder Singh said that on June 17, the anti-narcotics cell received a tip-off that Anchit alias Chintu, a resident of Peer Muchalla, would arrive near Herbal Park in Sector 26 to deliver cocaine. He was apprehended as 87 cocaine pellets wei...