NEW DELHI: Linking the Pahalgam terror strikes by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Pakistan’s ISI to the seizure of three,000 kg of heroin price Rs 21,000 crore at Mundra port, Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) instructed Supreme Courtroom that this was a part of LeT’s narco-trafficking technique—to lift cash for its terror actions and weaken India by promoting medicine to the youth.
“Look what they did to India at Pahalgam by capturing harmless vacationers,” further solicitor basic Aishwarya Bhati instructed a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh on Wednesday and defined how related consignments have been earlier dropped at India from Afghanistan utilizing legitimate paperwork referring to talc stones. The cash raised by way of the sale of medication, imported utilizing legitimate channels and saved at warehouses in Neb Sarai and Alipur in Delhi, was then routed to LeT, they stated, whereas alleging that petitioner Kabir Talwar, who’s looking for bail, was a part of the drug syndicate that facilitated the nefarious operation.
In its affidavit, NIA stated, “The narco-trafficker positioned in Afghanistan, by way of the assistance of Pakistan-based intelligence company ISI and Iranian middlemen imported a big consignment of two,988.2 kgs of narcotic medicine i.e. heroin, valued at Rs 21,000 crore by way of the identical modus operandi, which consignment was despatched from Afghanistan through Iran and which was imported in India hid as talc powder. The proceeds of this sale was for use for funding .”
“This case is a case of largest intercepted consignment of narco- substance being dropped at India by way of illicit means, which was for use, not solely, to wreak a havoc amongst public (which was the focused person of the stated narco-product) but in addition, to make use of the sale proceeds to fund terrorism,” NIA stated.