New Delhi: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has frozen greater than Rs 1.34 crore money seized from the premises of jailed radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh on November 8 in reference to a narcotics case wherein 103 kg of heroin price Rs 700 crore was seized by the customs division in April 2022.
Based on the federal company, Amritpal’s property had been frozen after the funds had been recognized as “illegally acquired property”.
In an announcement, NIA stated that the heroin consignment from Afghanistan entered India by the Built-in Examine Submit (ICP) at Attari, Amritsar on April 22 final yr. The contraband was ingeniously hid in a cargo of licorice roots (mulethi).
“Investigations uncovered that the money amounting to Rs 1,34,12,000 seized from the premises of Singh was ‘proceeds of medicine’. Singh orchestrated the switch of funds from 2019 to 2021, depositing them straight into the financial institution accounts of accused people Shahid Ahmed alias Qazi Abdul Wadood and Razi Haider Zaidi. Moreover, funds had been surreptitiously channelled by hawala transactions,” the assertion stated.
Based on the company, the money seized from the premises of Singh has been frozen below the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
As per the assertion, the case was initially registered by the customs division, however the NIA later took over the investigations, which revealed that the heroin consignment was being smuggled into India by the land border on the directives of Dubai-based absconding accused Shahid Ahmed.
The intricate smuggling net entails Nazir Ahmed Qani, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan who dispatched the illicit heroin consignment and the contraband was to be delivered to Delhi-based accused Razi Haider Zaidi.
The heroin was meant for distribution throughout numerous components of the nation, aimed toward reaping substantial financial positive aspects, the assertion stated.
Final yr in December, a cost sheet within the case was filed in opposition to 4 accused – Shahid Ahmed, Nazir Ahmed Qani, Razi Haider Zaidi, and Vipin Mittal.