NIA files in Sri Lankan drug case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a First Information Report in the reported seizure of medication, arms and ammunition from a Sri Lankan fishing vessel off Vizhinjam in March.

The FIR was filed earlier than the Special Court for NIA circumstances, Ernakulam.

The Narcotics Control Bureau had earlier registered a case after the regulation enforcement companies arrested six Sri Lankan nationals and reportedly seized 301kg of heroin, 5 AK 47 rifles and 1000 9mm ammunition from the vessel Ravihansi from Arabian Sea on March 25. Cases had been booked in opposition to the overseas nationals below the provisions of the Arms Act and the Indian Penal Code.

Later, the Home Ministry directed the NIA to guide a case after it was discovered {that a} Scheduled Offence below the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008, was dedicated by the accused. The NIA was introduced in to research the crime contemplating the gravity of the offence and its ramifications on the nationwide and worldwide safety, the FIR famous.

Incidentally, L.Y. Nandana, one of many six accused in the case, had earlier complained earlier than the a trial court docket in Thiruvananthapuram that the officers of the Indian Coast Guard made him lie on a sizzling iron plate, which was used to prepare dinner meals in the vessel, after preserving a lit fuel range beneath the metallic sheet.

The accused, who suffered burn accidents on his again, was produced earlier than the court docket. Later, the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram, on an instruction from the Additional Sessions Judge 1 of Thiruvananthapuram, directed the accused to be admitted to the Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapruam.

The Justice of the Peace has sought info from the Coast Guard on the lads who had been on board the vessel on the day in which the alleged ill-treatment passed off. The Chief Judicial Magistrate has posted the case for May 17.