THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The NIA team with Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair, suspects arrested in the gold smuggling case were brought to Aluva district hospital for medical examination. After the medical examination, the two will be brought to NIA headquarters. The vehicles carrying them reached Walayar check-post at 11.30 am. The vehicles crossed the check post under heavy police protection. The team with the suspects left Bengaluru at 5 am. Congress activists staged protests at the check-post. A large crowd including the media were at the check post.
The two were arrested from Bengaluru last night. The two were nabbed at a time when they had planned to flee to Nagaland where Sandeep’s friend has a resort. All arrangements were made for that. It was in between this they were nabbed by tracing their phone calls. A message sent to a Whatsapp group by them also led to their arrest.