New Delhi, May 13: A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed a two-day transit remand to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take extradited narco-terrorist Iqbal Singh alias Shera to Punjab.
After securing the accused’s extradition from Portugal earlier in the day, the NIA arrested him and produced him before Principal District and Session Judge Pitambar Dutt in the Patiala House courts.
The agency sought a three-day transit remand to take him to Mohali in Punjab, following which the court granted them a two-day transit remand.
A native of Punjab’s Amritsar, Shera had allegedly masterminded a conspiracy to smuggle narcotics from Pakistan into the border state. A non-bailable warrant had been pending against him since October 2020, the agency said.
It said he coordinated and supervised the trafficking and distribution of the smuggled drugs, and channelised the proceeds through hawala networks to Pakistan- and Kashmir-based operatives of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terrorist outfit to facilitate terror activities.
