NIA gets 10-day custody of 7 foreign nationals held for suspected Myanmar links

A Delhi tribunal connected Friday (March 27, 2026) extended by 10 days the remand of 7 overseas nationals who are successful the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) implicit suspected links to taste equipped groups successful Myanmar. The bureau had sought a 15-day custody for their interrogation.

Special justice Prashant Sharma, who conducted the proceedings astatine the NIA office citing the delicate quality of the probe and its imaginable planetary ramifications, directed that the accused beryllium produced earlier the tribunal again connected April 6.

The accused are U.S. nationalist Matthew Aaron Van Dyke and six Ukrainian nationals — Hurba Petro, Slyviak Taras, Ivan Sukmanovskyi, Stefankiv Marian, Honcharuk Maksim, and Kaminskyi Viktor. They were arrested earlier this month. The NIA said they were progressive successful supplying weapons and subject hardware to taste equipped groups operating successful Myanmar, and grooming them. The lawsuit against them was registered nether Section 18 (conspiracy) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, on with applicable provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The tribunal sources said the accused moved a plea connected Friday seeking the assignment of an autarkic translator to guarantee just proceedings.

According to the NIA, the accused entered India connected tourer visas and travelled to Guwahati earlier proceeding to Mizoram without obtaining the required permits. They are said to person past crossed into Myanmar illegally to bid taste equipped olrganisations.