THE NIA Tuesday said it chargesheeted eight more accused persons in the 2020 transnational narco-terror network case involving smuggling of drugs (500 kg heroin) from Pakistan through sea route into India via Gujarat. The drugs were aimed at financing the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed the NIA.

In the eighth supplementary chargesheet filed in the Salaya drugs case, the NIA said it conclusively established a narco-terror conspiracy “masterminded by Italy-based Simranjit Singh Sandhu, Australia-based Tanveer Bedi and India-based Ankush Kapoor”. The chargesheet was filed under various provisions of NDPS Act and UAPA before the NIA Special Court, Ahmedabad , based on extensive digital, technical and documentary evidence.

The other accused named in the chargesheet are Pakistani national Tar

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