Police at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport busted a gang of four operating a theft racket inside the cargo area of the airport, on Saturday.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested 17 persons, including five policemen, a political activist, a contractor and a shopkeeper, from different areas of Kupwara and Baramulla disricts after unearthing a narcotics smuggling module originating from Pakistan, it informed through a statement.
The agency named Nsarangbe alias Pela alias Pela Nsa Zeme, his wife and others in the money laundering case involving a well-organized extortion racket run by the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah faction or the (NSCN-IM.)
The smuggling is done by a global racket of smugglers who are facilitated by local Afghan officials. Major support to the crime is provided by actors working from the territory of neighbouring Pakistan.
The police have arrested eight persons in the cases of robbery and dacoity and seized property worth over Rs 90 lakhs in two different cases, the police said on Wednesday.
The accused were arrested in multiple raids carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and other places in the last two months. The rescued victims are from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Assam, Bangladesh, Nepal,
The case was registered after a 29-year-old model complained to the police that she was duped on the pretext of doing "bold" scenes for a web series meant for foreign clients.
The gang was involved in the forgery of bank account statements, ITR and other supporting documents required for securing the VISA from different countries, said the Delhi police in its statement, adding that, 8 persons including the mastermind of the racket have been apprehended in the matt
The station in-charge of the Kotwali police station, Vikram Singh told ANI, "Acting on a tip-off that a suspicious racket was being run from a cyber cafe on the premises of a hotel in the Gopal Nagar area, we raided the place and busted the gang."