MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has recently written to the National Investigation Agency (
NIA), seeking details of two
Mumbai tour operators who had allegedly arranged tour
visas for four
Kalyan youth who fled the country in 2014 to join the Islamic State.
Soheb Zoradarwala and his father Ahad, who own a travel agency in Mumbai, had been arrested by the
DRI in March along with five others in a gold-smuggling case.
With the suspected link of a Pakistan national to the gold smuggling racket emerging, DRI sleuths felt the need to check the antecedents of the two who were also under the scanner of the central agency that investigates terror cases. In March, the DRI had busted one of the biggest gold-smuggling rackets in recent times and seized 110 kgs of the yellow metal.