Overview

• A pre-dawn NIA team raided Sunny Communications and Sunny’s residence on Dalai Lama Temple Road, seizing mobile phones, computer hard drives and financial documents.
• After several hours of questioning, Sunny was formally arrested under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Punjab Travel Professionals Act.
• Authorities are examining his rapid wealth accumulation, including a recent purchase of a three-storey house and his marriage to a Russian national, for potential money laundering links.
• The case entails probing alleged terror financing for Khalistani activists alongside human trafficking schemes that may have used infamous cross-border routes.
• Local police were not informed prior to the operation, highlighting coordination challenges in high-security missions during the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday celebrations.