India, April 8 -- A Goa court has discharged a Nigerian national who was arrested by the Goa police on charges of drug trafficking along with two others in 2019.

Additional sessions judge Kshama M Joshi noted in her April 5 order that the Nigerian national, Sunday Onye Lucky, was arrested because a mobile phone SIM card seized by the police during the raid at a rented premises in Siolim in September 2019 was issued to him. Lucky was given the SIM card by the Nigerian high commission in his capacity as president of the All India Nigerian Students and Community Association.

But Lucky argued before the court that no drugs were found in his possession and that the SIM card in question was being used by an acquaintance who was also a member ...