NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency has not dropped terror investigation towards US nationwide Matthew Aaron VanDyke and 6 Ukrainian nationals, information company ANI reported citing sources.ANI reported that the central probing company has investigating into offences underneath the UAPA towards all of the accused.“NIA has filed a chargesheet underneath the Immigration and Foreigners Act (IFA) as a result of these offences have already been absolutely established throughout the investigation until now,” sources informed ANI.This comes days after NIA filed a chargesheet towards VanDyke in a case registered by the company in March 2026. The case was initially registered underneath the UAPA. Nonetheless, the UAPA provision has not been invoked within the chargesheet filed by the company.
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The NIA’s Particular Public Prosecutor (SPP) stated that the investigation on this regard remains to be ongoing and the company could file a supplementary chargesheet if an offence underneath the UAPA is made out.The NIA had arrested Matthew Aaron Van Dyke (US citizen) and Ukrainian nationals Hurba Petro, Slyviak Taras, Ivan Sukmanovskyi, Stefankiv Marian, Honcharuk Maksim and Kaminskyi Viktor.VanDyke, a self-described fight specialist and founding father of the safety agency Sons of Liberty Worldwide (SOLI), was arrested at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Worldwide Airport on March 13, round 9 pm, as a part of a coordinated crackdown.The accused had been allegedly concerned in supporting ethnic armed teams in Myanmar by supplying weapons, terrorist {hardware} and coaching them.