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New Delhi, September 25: The son of a Nigerian diplomat has been arrested for allegedly selling cocaine in the vicinity of a cinema theatre in South Delhi, a senior police official said on Sunday.
New Delhi, September 25: The son of a Nigerian diplomat has been arrested for allegedly selling cocaine in the vicinity of a cinema theatre in South Delhi, a senior police official said on Sunday.
31-Year-old Oladeyo Degi Togun was arrested on a tip-off outside the PVR cinema in Vasant Vihar on Saturday and 10 grams of high grade cocaine was seized from his possession, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Narcotics and Crime Prevention) A.S. Cheema said.
He said the accused and his accomplices tried to run away on seeing the raiding party. While Togun was chased and overpowered by the police, the others managed to escape.
Cheema said Togun was under the impression that being the son of a diplomat, he could not be prosecuted and also claimed ‘he confessed that he had been selling cocaine to high class clients in Vasant Vihar and other posh localities'.
'The accused said he was procuring high grade cocaine through a network of Nigerian colleagues," Cheema said.
He said Togun's mother visited the police station after being informed about her son's arrest but refused to invoke diplomatic immunity.
The accused was later produced before a metropolitan magistrate's court which remanded him to judicial custody.