Ambala, March 19 An African national was arrested in Haryana's Ambala along with over 300 grams of heroin, police said on Thursday.
The Ambala Crime Investigation Agency-1 team of Ambala police apprehended Halima Nabosa, a native of Uganda, in Ambala Cantt and seized 306 grams of heroin from her possession.
After her arrest, the CIA-1 team produced the foreign national before a local court and obtained a five-day police remand for further investigation.
The police said that preliminary investigation revealed that Halima Nabosa currently resides in Delhi. She had travelled from Delhi to Ambala with the intention of supplying the contraband to someone here.
Harjinder, the in-charge of CIA-1, stated that on the night of March 17, they received information that a foreign national was arriving with a consignment of narcotics.
On March 18 night, the police cordoned off the Ambala Cantonment area and apprehended the suspect. The woman had concealed the heroin within her clothing and the drugs were recovered during a subsequent search conducted by the police.
The police are currently investigating whether she has links to any major drug trafficking syndicates.
They are also attempting to identify the specific individual in Ambala to whom she intended to supply the heroin.