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The lawsuit dates backmost to May 31, 2020, erstwhile Punjab Police arrested 3 men during a patrol successful Amritsar’s Tarsikka country and seized 500 grams of heroin from their Hyundai Verna car. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha)
In a important improvement successful a five-year-old cause smuggling case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought to analyse the wealth laundering facet linked to the narco-terror network. The bureau approached the peculiar National Investigation Agency (NIA) tribunal connected November 22 for support to interrogate 8 accused presently lodged successful Amritsar Central Jail nether judicial custody.
The accused see Jajbir Singh Samra alias Jaggi, Harpreet Singh alias Happy, Varinder Singh Chahal, Nirmal Singh alias Neeldhari, Satpal Singh, Hira Lal, Harjeet Singh alias Bagga, and Jasbir Singh alias Shera. The ED aims to grounds their statements nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The tribunal has scheduled the adjacent proceeding for November 29.
The lawsuit dates backmost to May 31, 2020, erstwhile Punjab Police arrested 3 men during a patrol successful Amritsar’s Tarsikka country and seized 500 grams of heroin from their Hyundai Verna car. Initially registered nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the probe revealed the accused’s engagement successful a cross-border narco-terror network, allegedly raising funds for panic activities successful Punjab.
Given the gravity of the case, the NIA took implicit the probe successful January 2020, adding sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The ED’s engagement present focuses connected unravelling the fiscal dealings of the accused and their links to panic funding.
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