Delhi
NIA Related Incidents:2022

A Delhi court on February 25 sent National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s former Superintendent of Police (SP), Arvind Digvijay Negi, Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez and others to judicial custody for a month in a case related to the terror funding in the Jammu and Kashmir Valley, reports Daily Excelsior. Special Judge Parveen Singh sent the accused persons to jail till March 24 after they were produced before the court on expiry of their custodial interrogation by the NIA. The agency had arrested Negi, a former SP of the NIA, for allegedly leaking secret documents to an Over Ground Worker (OGW) of the banned terror group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). The case was filed under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), including those related to terrorism and terror funding. The NIA had alleged that the accused had been running a network of OGWs of LeT and recruited persons across India. In pursuance to conspiracy, the accused were in contact with their foreign based handlers and upon their directions were engaged in gathering intelligence on vital installations, security forces as well as identification of target locations for launching of terrorist attacks, the NIA said. Read less...

On March 4, National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a person from Bhajanpura in North-East Delhi District for his alleged involvement in smuggling gold and Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in the country, reports The Print. The arrestee identified as Abdul Wahid revealed during interrogation that he is an active member of a gang involved in smuggling of FICNs and gold into India. According to NIA, the case pertains to the January 12 seizure of FICN of face value of Rs 10 lakh and 175 gms gold worth Rs 8.5 lakh at terminal-3 of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport by Customs officials from Mohammad Shahjan. Read less...

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court of Patiala House in New Delhi on June 2, pronounced the sentence of seven years to five accused in an Islamic State (IS) module case in Roorkee (Uttarakhand), which is linked to the conspiracy to establish an IS base in India, and carry out terror activities in Delhi-NCR and Haridwar during the Ardh Kumbh festival, reports ommcomnews.com. The five accused — Akhlakur Rehman, Mohammad Azeemushan, Mohammed Osama, Mohammad Meraj, all four who are residents of Haridwar, and Mohsin Ibrahim Sayyed of Mumbai (Maharashtra) under sections of the IPC, the UA(P)A and the Explosive Substances Act. The case was initially registered by Delhi Police Special Cell on January 18, 2016, and re-registered by the NIA on March 18, 2016. Earlier on May 20, all the five accused had been convicted. Read less...