Hyderabad, Dec. 22 -- A 27-year-old Ugandan woman was arrested in Towlichowki in Hyderabad on Sunday, December 21, and deported back to her home country, allegedly for supplying drugs, the police said.

Juliana Victor Nabitaka, a native of Kampala in Uganda, came to India on a tourist visa in February 2024 and visited several places across the country. She stayed in Chennai for four months, Mumbai for two months, and Bengaluru for eight months, even as her visa had expired in January this year, Vaibhav Gaikwad, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing, said in a statement.

While touring India, she allegedly befriended foreign drug peddlers and began associating with them. Subsequently, she, too, began supplying...