Friday, August 23, 2024-Police have arrested a Nigerian woman in India for allegedly smuggling and supplying psychotropic substances. The police recovered 3.87 kilograms of Mescaline worth around Rs 15 crore in the international market.
Mescaline is known as a party drug and
has hallucinogenic effects the same as LSD and Psilocybin (magic mushroom),
officials said in a statement on Thursday, August 22, 2024, adding that the
drug was smuggled in the packing of branded toffees and fish food.
The accused identified as Faith
Racheal, was arrested on August 14 from the Mehrauli area of Delhi.
Mescaline is a naturally occurring
psychedelic that comes from the Mexican Peyote cactus and the San Pedro cactus
found in Peru and Ecuador. Mescaline can be in powder, tablet, capsule or
liquid form, police said.
On August 14, a raid was conducted at
Mehrauli after getting a tip-off and Racheal was nabbed along with a bag in
which 3.8 kg of Mescaline was recovered, which was concealed in the packing of
branded toffee and fish foods, said the Deputy Commissioner of Police (special
cell) Amit Kaushik.
Rachael came to India in August 2022
on a medical visa.
After the expiry of the visa, she did not
return to Nigeria. She came in contact with a Nigerian national
and started smuggling of narcotics substance.
She became part of the narcotics drug
cartel and used to deliver consignment of narcotics substances from one conduit
to another with the help of the said person based in Nigeria.
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