A Shillong-based businessman, Prateek Agarwal was arrested in Guwahati for having links with the two Nigerian drug smugglers arrested on Saturday from the railway station with a consignment of cocaine.
Prateek is the son of Kamal Agarwal, owner of Alpine Continental, a well-known hotel in the city.
Guwahati police had launched an operation and confiscated the cocaine consignment from the two Nigerian drugs smugglers identified as Emmanuel Enuma Dike and Ifeanyi Charles Okuakaj.
According to a report by nenow.in a news portal in Guwahati, the Nigerian drugs smugglers confessed that they were to handover the Cocaine consignment to a ‘carrier’ of a Shillong-based high-profile client.
Based on the confession of the two Nigerian drugs smugglers, police picked up one Sony Sonar. After several hours of interrogation, he confessed that he was asked by his owner, Prateek Agarwal, to collect the ‘packet’ from the two Nigerian nationals.
Prateek admitted that he had asked Sonar to collect the consignment of cocaine from the two Nigerian nationals at the Guwahati Railway Station, the news portal quoted police sources.
It was also reported that Prateek has also given names of two Guwahati-based businessmen, claiming that he had instructed his driver to collect the packet from the Nigerian nationals as per their instruction.
However, police refused to divulge any details about the two Guwahati-based businessmen, claiming that investigations are on, and they are trying to arrest some more people.
A lady from Meghalaya was also picked up for interrogation in connection with the case.
However, police in Guwahati refused to divulge any details about the lady, claiming that it may hamper in the process of the ongoing investigation.
Meanwhile, the two Nigerian drugs smugglers, Prateek and Sonar were also produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Guwahati.
Prateek’s statement was recorded in the court, and was subsequently released. He was advised not to leave Guwahati.
