The raids are nonetheless occurring.
New Delhi:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at greater than 100 places in six states of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus circumstances.
The anti-terror company in shut coordination with state police forces carried out these raids since early Wednesday on the premises and different locations linked to suspects. The raids are nonetheless occurring.
The raids are being carried out in reference to three separate circumstances lodged by the NIA final year– RC 37, 38, 39/2022/NIA/DLI.
The company on January 25 this 12 months arrested one Deepak Ranga, the principle shooter within the RPG assault on Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in May 2022 in its case RC-37/2022/NIA/DLI, from Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur as he was a detailed affiliate of Canada based mostly gangster-turned-terrorist Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias Landa and Pakistan based mostly gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda.
Apart from his involvement within the May RPG assault, Deepak has been concerned in a variety of different violent terrorist and felony offences, together with violent killings. He has been actively receiving terror funds and logistical assist from Rinda and Landa.
The NIA had registered the case suo moto on September 20, 2022, after it emerged that terrorist outfits and terror components based mostly overseas had been working in tandem with leaders and members of organized felony gangs working in northern states of the nation to commit focused killings and violent felony acts. It had additionally emerged that the terror-gangster-drug smuggler community was additionally engaged in smuggling terrorist {hardware}, similar to arms, ammunition explosives, IEDs and many others throughout borders by way of a widespread inter-state community of gun runners, unlawful arms and ammunition producers and suppliers and explosive traffickers.
Since the registration of three felony circumstances towards the above terror-gangster-drug smuggler community, NIA has already arrested 19 leaders and members of assorted Organised felony gangs, two Arms suppliers and one huge financier related with the community below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Canada-based Arsh Dalla has been designated as an ‘particular person terrorist’ by the Ministry of Home Affairs on January 9, this 12 months.
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