New Delhi, Aug 31 A Delhi court on Monday allowed the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea seeking to interrogate US citizen Matthew Aaron Van Dyke and Ukrainian national Kaminskyi Viktor inside Tihar jail.
Both alleged mercenaries are in judicial custody. The agency has accused them of involvement in a terror conspiracy case with links to ethnic armed groups in India.
Special Judge Prashant Sharma allowed the agency to interrogate Dyke and Viktor in prison on September 2 and 3.
The NIA arrested Dyke on March 13, along with six Ukrainian nationals -- Viktor, Hurba Petro, Slyviak Taras, Ivan Sukmanovskyi, Stefankiv Marian, and Honcharuk Maksim -- after they allegedly infiltrated India from Myanmar through the Mizoram border before being intercepted at various domestic airports across the country.
The group, suspected to have been operating as mercenaries, is being probed for a wide-ranging terror conspiracy, including assistance to ethnic armed groups in India and Myanmar, and imparting drone training to them.
On March 16, the court allowed the NIA 11 days' custody of the accused. They were later remanded to judicial custody.
