INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In a major revelation in a case pertaining to the seizure of a huge quantity of narcotic drugs along with five AK-47 rifles and 9mm
proscribed terrorist organisation LTTE within India and abroad.The accused had also plotted to procure prohibited arms and ammunition,
besides contraband articles
The National Investigation Agency of India filed the report in the Kerala High Court in response to the bail plea filed by Ramesh, a Sri
Bureau (NCB) on their arrival at Vizhinjam port in Thiruvananthapuram.The Central government directed the NIA to take over the probe and
later the seventh and his brother and eighth accused were taken into custody, allegedly for being members of the banned Liberation Tigers of
Ramesh revealed that he had stayed in India without a visa violating the provisions of the Foreigners Act.According to NIA, Ramesh and the
other accused, including his brother being a core cadre of the LTTE, held secret meetings and conspired to carry out illegal activities of
trafficking in drugs and also arms and ammunition with the intention of raising funds to revive and further the activities of the LTTE, both
in India and Sri Lanka, They formed a terrorist gang and transferred money through hawala channels for the procurement of drugs, arms and
ammunition.A witness in the case also spoke of the drug and hawala business carried out by the brothers and specifically referred to Ramesh
having collected hawala money from a person named Faseel Bhai
illegal activities but also his definite link with LTTE, with full knowledge and complicity in the attempt to smuggle heroin, arms and
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