India, Oct. 23 -- A Delhi court on Friday extended the permission to stay outside India granted to US national Matthew VanDyke and six other Ukraine nationals, till February 24 next year. They were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in March over allegations that they trained ethnic armed groups in Myanmar.

This comes after the NIA submitted that they need more time to investigate several aspects of the case.

Mathew VanDyke was allowed to return to his home country for a month and returned for the court hearing on Friday. The six Ukrainian, however, have not returned to India.

The court had directed VanDyke, in an order last month, to appear before it within 72 hours of returning to India, an earlier HT report quoted a...