India, Aug. 4 -- In a dramatic bust that peeled back the layers of an international drug-smuggling operation, the Tulinj police in Nalasopara arrested a 48-year-old Nigerian national with high-grade party drugs worth Rs.18.43 lakh-ingeniously hidden inside the steel frame of an ordinary umbrella.

The accused, identified as Chukwu Emeka alias John Paul Best, a resident of Kharghar in Navi Mumbai and originally from Lagos, Nigeria, was nabbed near Center Park on the station side road following a tip-off about a foreigner attempting to peddle narcotics in the area.

Initially, the police search turned up nothing-his pockets were empty, and he appeared clean. But when an officer probed the suspect's umbrella, they discovered a concealed stas...