NIA: No Dalai Lama or Khalistani link in Himachal raid

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Saturday denied media reports suggesting that its squad conducted a raid successful McLeodganj, Himachal Pradesh successful transportation with the information of Dalai Lama oregon immoderate Khalistani panic financing lawsuit connected Friday.In a crisp clarification, the NIA said the hunt conducted successful McLeodganj connected Friday was wholly related to an ongoing probe into a quality trafficking lawsuit dubbed the 'US Donkey Route' network, a method utilized to illegally nonstop radical to the United States via aggregate countries."The hunt had nary transportation either with HH Dalai Lama oregon with immoderate lawsuit related to Khalistani terrorists, and reports to the contrary successful a conception of the media are wholly false," the bureau said successful a statement.Two much traffickers arrested successful Friday's raidsEarlier, the NIA confirmed that 2 accused traffickers were arrested during the searches conducted simultaneously successful Himachal Pradesh and Delhi. The accused were identified arsenic Sunny alias Sunny Donker, a nonmigratory of Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh and Shubham Sandhal alias Deep Hundi, primitively from Ropar, Punjab, presently residing successful Peeragarhi, Delhi. Both are reportedly adjacent associates of Gagandeep Singh alias Goldy, a cardinal accused who was earlier arrested successful March this year.

The section constabulary were duly informed and accompanied the NIA squad during the McLeodganj operation, the bureau said.Rs 45 lakh per unfortunate for amerciable introduction to USAccording to NIA's investigation, the accused charged victims up to Rs 45 lakh each, promising ineligible introduction into the US. Instead, they sent them connected perilous journeys crossed aggregate countries including Spain, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico.Gagandeep Singh, a nonmigratory of Tilak Nagar successful Delhi, had already been chargesheeted connected June 27. He is believed to person trafficked implicit 100 individuals to the US earlier his arrest.The lawsuit came to airy aft a unfortunate was deported from the US backmost to India earlier this twelvemonth and filed a ailment with authorities.