A Delhi court has sent a Nigerian national to over three years in jail for illegally staying in India and forging documents and also asked the Foreigner Regional Registration Office to deport him to his native country after completion of sentence.
The court, which convicted Amachi Jude Onyeka for the offence under the Foreigners Act, acquitted him of the charge of possessing contraband drugs by giving him benefit of doubt.
Special NDPS judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar held Onyeka guilty of using a forged document and staying in India without any valid travel document and sentenced him to three years and three months jail. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on him.
"After completion of sentence, he shall be deported to his native country. The FRRO be informed accordingly," the court said.
While acquitting him under the NDPS Act, the court said prosecution was not able to establish that the accused was in possession of 800 gram of 'Heroin'.
According to the prosecution, Onyeka was caught when he was alighting from an auto in December 2012. On seeing police, he tried to flee but was caught.
Police checked his bag and some narcotic substance was recovered from it, it had alleged, adding that the accused had admitted carrying cocaine.
During the trial, Onyeka claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case and no bag containing contraband substance was recovered from him and he was caught by the police when he de-boarded a Metro.
He also sought leniency in sentence, saying his financial condition was not sound and that he has no previous criminal record.
