NIA raids 12 districts of Punjab in terror-narcotics nexus cases
The Hindu
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 17 carried out searches at 12 districts across Punjab in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 17 carried out searches at 12 districts across Punjab in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases.
The raids were conducted at a total of six to eight different places in Moga and in many areas of Ferozepur and Bhatinda.
The anti-terror agency in close coordination with the State police forces conducted these raids since early Wednesday on the premises and other places linked to suspects.
The raids are still going on. Meanwhile, the anti-terror agency also conducted searches at the house of a person named Kokhar in the Chandsar township of Bathinda who is likely to be arrested by NIA today.
The raids are being conducted in connection with three separate cases lodged by the NIA last year — RC 37, 38, 39/2022/NIA/DLI.
The search operation at more than 100 locations in six States of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases are under way.
The agency on January 25, this year, arrested Deepak Ranga, the main shooter in the RPG attack on Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in May 2022 in the case RC-37/2022/NIA/DLI, from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur as he was a close associate of Canada based gangster-turned-terrorist Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias Landa and Pakistan based gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda.
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