The NIA on Wednesday carried out raids at a number of locations in Delhi, NCR and different locations. 3,000 kg heroin in Gujarat’s Mundra port final September.
In March this yr, the National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet towards 16 folks alleging that these concerned within the racket have hyperlinks with terror teams in Pakistan.
The central company had filed a chargesheet in an Ahmedabad court docket towards 16 accused, 11 of whom are Afghan nationals, 4 Indians and one Iranian. Was caught beneath the guise of talaq on a ship by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. The worth of this consignment is claimed to be greater than Rs 21,000 crore.
“Links of accused Mohammad Hasan Hussain Dad and Mohammad Hassan Dad and different co-conspirators with banned terrorist organizations primarily based in Pakistan have additionally come to the fore. The NIA had then mentioned in a press release that the proceeds of drug smuggling by hawala channels have been repatriated to overseas entities to be used in anti-India actions on the behest of Pakistan-based terror outfits.
Hassan Dad and Hussain Dad are the promoters of Hassan Hussain Limited primarily based in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It was the corporate that despatched the consignment declaring it to be semi-processed talc stone. The consignment originated from Kandahar in Afghanistan and was dispatched from Iran’s Bandar Abbas port. In India, it was to be acquired by the Andhra Pradesh-based Aashi Trading Company, run by Chennai-based Machavaram Sudhakar and his spouse Govindaraju Durga Poorna Vaishali.
“During the investigation, it was established that drug trafficking in India was carried out earlier also by the same group of accused persons. These include offenses registered by the DRI Delhi Zonal Unit, in which 16.105 kg of heroin was seized from a godown in Delhi; and one case FIR No. 90/2021 PS Garh Shankar dated 01.07.2021 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab in which 20.250 kg of Heroin was seized. These two offenses were also included as connected offenses in the instant case,” the NIA had mentioned.
According to the NIA, Ashi Trading Company’s father and accused M Sudhakar, DP Vaishali and Rajkumar Perumal together with others had hatched a legal conspiracy to smuggle enormous portions of narcotics into India by hiding in consignments of semi-processed talc. “The consignment sent in September 2021 was intercepted while the earlier consignment was received and stored at a Delhi godown for distribution in Delhi and Punjab,” it had mentioned.
The chargesheet by the company consists of 10 arrested and 6 absconding accused. The arrested accused are M Sudhakar, DP Vaishali, Perumal and Pradeep Kumar from India. Mohammad Khan Akhlaqi, Saeed Mohammed Hussaini, Fardeen Ameri, Shobhan Aryanfar, Alokozai Mohammad Khan, and Murtaza Hakimi are Afghan residents,
The six absconding accused towards whom the chargesheet has been filed embrace dads, Iranian nationwide Jawad Najafi and Afghan nationals Najibullah Khan Khalid, Esmat Ullah Honari and Abdul Hadi Alizada.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
