New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- A Delhi court on Friday allowed US national Matthew Aaron VanDyke and six Ukrainians who were arrested in March by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to remain abroad. VanDyke was arrested in Kolkata while the Ukrainian nationals were held in Lucknow and Delhi for allegedly supporting and training ethnic armed groups in Myanmar that were allegedly inimical to India's national security.

According to the investigators, VanDyke and his team entered Mizoram on tourist visas and crossed illegally into Myanmar, where they established training camps to coach urban combat and drone warfare to ethnic armed groups.

The NIA had alleged that the accused entered India on tourist visas, travelled through restricted areas wi...