Searches carried out by India’s Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in reference to a medication& arms smuggling case, has led to the restoration and seizure of devices and incriminating paperwork. The premier company answerable for investigating terror-related crimes in India had carried out searches throughout 22 premises stated to be linked to a Sri Lankan drug mafia, throughout the Southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu’s capital metropolis Chennai and different districts equivalent to Thiruppur, Chengalpattu and Thiruchirapally have been the areas that witnessed searches by the sleuths. In response to the NIA, that is stated to be in reference to unlawful actions of the Sri Lankan drug mafia being operated by C.Gunashekharan and Pushparajah, in affiliation with Haji Salim, a Pakistan-based medicine and arms provider.
“These medicine and arms traffickers have been working in India and Sri Lanka and dealing for the revival of LTTE and to additional its violent actions”, stated the company. The searches are based mostly on a suo motu case that NIA registered in current weeks. The case was filed below sections that lined severe offences that fall below prison conspiracy, Illegal Actions Prevention Act and the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act and many others.
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The case is claimed to be related to the seizure of Ak-47 rifles and heroin from a Sri Lankan boat off the Kerala coast, in 2021.
