New Delhi:

A 70-year-old Cameroon national was arrested for smuggling cocaine worth about Rs 11 crore at the Delhi International Airport, the customs department said today.

The cocaine was recovered from his alimentary canal, according to officials.

Simon Alfred Nagong, the accused, touched down at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport on June 17 after traveling from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). He was pulled up for additional questioning and investigation after he exhibited odd behaviour at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport, according to the Customs Department.

During questioning, the accused confessed that he had several drugs concealed throughout his body. After this, the Customs Department team took the accused to Safdarjung Hospital and a medical board kept a constant watch on him.

To remove the drugs from his body, an ejection procedure was performed under professional guidance. 73 capsules containing cocaine were removed from the accused’s stomach through stool after many days of constant monitoring. The capsules weighed a total of 1.96 kg, whose value is about Rs 11 crore, according to the Customs Department.

A passport of the Republic of Cameroon has also been recovered from the accused.

Simon has been arrested under the Customs Act and a further investigation is underway to establish who he had come to deliver this cocaine to in India.

New Delhi:

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official deployed at the Delhi Airport arrested a woman, who was found roaming at Delhi Airport allegedly wearing a CISF uniform, pretending to be a CISF official on Thursday.

The woman was handed over to Delhi Police, CISF officials said. A case has also been registered under Section 171 at the IGI Airport Police Station.

According to the FIR filed by CISF official at the IGI Police station, “On May 9 at about 19:50 hrs, a doubtful lady, Anjali Ojha, was found wearing a CISF uniform (camouflage trousers with camouflage T-shirt, black DMS shoes with Khakhi socks) and roaming nearby in the Staff Canteen of Arrival T2 Terminal of IGI Airport, New Delhi.”

The FIR further said that on interrogation with the lady, she initially said that she is working in CISF and presently posted at DMRC Delhi.

“On further inquiry, she said that she had come to receive someone, and she is not in CISF and working in a private company named M/s Gratis Co. Pvt. Ltd. Khanpur, Delhi,” the FIR stated.

Her activity was found suspicious and during interrogation, she seemed to be hiding facts, it added.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)