00:01What were foreign mercenaries doing on Indian soil?
00:05And not one, not two, but six, or were there even more?
00:10There was a terror investigation, six months in custody, a charge sheet, but not under the terror law.
00:18And now, they get to get home, even if it's on bail for a limited time period.
00:24The Matthew Van Dyke case has taken a stunning legal turn.
00:28Van Dyke, the man you see on your television screen, is an American mercenary.
00:34He and six Ukrainian nationals, they were arrested by the National Investigation Agency on the 13th of March
00:41in a case that was linked to alleged drone warfare training camp across in Myanmar.
00:48Now, according to the NIA, the accused apparently entered Myanmar through the Mizoram border
00:54without valid travel documents.
00:56They underwent training in drone warfare, drone operations, drone assembly, and electronic jamming.
01:03And this training camp was for armed ethnic groups in Myanmar.
01:10But India was the route they took.
01:12The NIA claimed that consignments of drones and accessories from Europe were flown into India,
01:19delivered to individual groups in Mizoram.
01:21The case was initially registered under the very stringent sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or the UAPA.
01:29The NIA was given an extended 180-day period to complete their investigations into the alleged terror offences.
01:38Now, when the NIA filed its first charge sheet on the 8th of September,
01:41it invoked provisions of the Immigration and Foreigners Act and not the UAPA since that remained under investigation.
01:51The probe agency told the court that the UAPA investigations were still ongoing
01:56and that a supplementary charge sheet could be filed if further offences were established.
02:03And on the 18th of September, Van Dyke was granted default bail.
02:09Now, all the seven accused have been released from Tehar Jail.
02:13They've been permitted to travel back to their respective countries,
02:16but for one month, subject to conditions of continued cooperation with the investigations.
02:23The opposition Congress has hit out at the government.
02:26They've questioned how the UAPA provisions just disappeared from the first charge sheet
02:32and why an accused in what the NIA had earlier described as a drone training conspiracy
02:37had been permitted to leave India.
02:39Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has also alleged that this was American pressure.
02:44American pressure played out in the development.
02:46He sought answers from the government.
02:49Listen in.
02:52Two sets of rules.
02:54For Indian youth locked in jails, different rule.
02:58For Van Dyke, different rule.
03:02Surrender Modi has surrendered again.
03:07The man with his team comes into our country as tourists,
03:11crosses the border from Mizoram to Myanmar,
03:13trains those terrorist militants there, comes back, gets arrested.
03:19Suddenly everything changes.
03:21Suddenly he is let free.
03:23Why?
03:25Why is he let off like this?
03:30Ask surrender Modi.
03:32How much will you surrender to America?
03:37This man is not coming back.
