A 29-year-old Nigerian woman, Olajide Iyanuoluwa, has been arrested in India with 121 grams of cocaine valued at about Rs 1.20 crore (approximately N195m), which she allegedly concealed inside bread loaves.
A report said that Indian authorities had remanded Iyanuoluwa in judicial custody and initiated procedures to deport her to Nigeria.
According to the report by The Indian Express on Wednesday, Iyanuoluwa was arrested by the Karnataka Police for allegedly smuggling cocaine from Mumbai to Bengaluru.
Investigations said that the suspect had travelled to India in 2024 on a student visa and initially moved to Delhi before her arrest.
The Bengaluru City Police Commissioner, Seemant Kumar Singh, said the arrest followed credible intelligence.
“Based on credible information that a foreign woman residing at Grace Trust, within the jurisdiction of the Varthur Police Station in Bengaluru, was supplying the prohibited narcotic drug cocaine to known persons, the CCB Narcotics Control Wing conducted a raid,” Singh said.
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PUNCH Metro gathered that during the raid conducted on Tuesday, operatives recovered the cocaine from Iyanuoluwa and also seized a mobile phone allegedly used to facilitate the crime, alongside other items.
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