The Supreme Court bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, R Banumathi and Navin Sinha on Monday (May 7) refused to grant bail to Paul Dika Acquah, a 32-year-old Ghanaian national, who had been arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi with cocaine in his shoes.

In January 23, 2012 Acquah had been arrested with 200gm of cocaine. He was apprehended from the airport parking lot, soon after arriving from Mumbai, the police had said. The police had said that he had hid the cocaine in two polythene packets, kept in the sole of his shoe.

The police had said that Acquah had come to India in October 2010 on a business visa and had started exporting clothes from Mumbai. He had gone back to his country and had again returned in November 2010. That was when he had come in touch with another Ghanaian national, Timoti, in Mumbai, who had introduced him to the lucrative cocaine trade.

—India Legal Bureau