New Delhi: The Nationwide Investigation Company on Monday carried out mega-raids at 50 places throughout northern India to crack down on gangs and crime syndicates in India and overseas.
These places included websites in Delhi, the Nationwide Capital Area, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab to dismantle and disrupt the rising nexus between terrorists, gangsters and drug smugglers-traffickers based mostly in India and overseas, senior NIA officers mentioned.
The Central anti-terror company transfer got here in a case associated to narco-terrorism by alleged gangsters, a few of whom have been concerned within the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.
“The searches have been carried out at 50 places in Fazilka, Fairdkot, Mukhtsar sahib, Moga, Taran Taran, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Mohali districts of Punjab, East Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Yamuna Nagar, Sonipat and Jhajjar districts of Haryana, Hanumangarh and Ganganagar districts of Rajasthan and Dwarka, Outer North, North West, North East and Shahdara districts of Delhi-NCR,” the probe company mentioned in a press release.
The premises of Goldy Brar, who has fled to Canada, Lawrence Bishnoi, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, Varinder Pratap alias Kala Rana, Kala Jathedi, Vikram Brar, Gaurav Patyal alias Fortunate Patyal who was earlier arrested in Armenia, Neeraj Bawana, Koushal Chaudhary, Tillu Tajpuria, Amit Dagar, Deepak Kumar alias Tinu, Sandeep alias Bandar, Umesh alias Kala, Irfan, alias Cheenu Pahalwan, Ashim alias Hashim Baba, Sachin Bhanja and their associates have been additionally raided on this connection.
The Central probe company additionally mentioned that through the searches, six pistols, one revolver, one shotgun, have been seized, together with ammunition, whereas medication, money, incriminating paperwork, digital gadgets, particulars of benami property, risk letters, and so forth. have additionally been seized by the NIA sleuths.
The anti-terror probe company has been probing a case of the alleged involvement of gangs in Punjab in smuggling medication from Pakistan and the cash being pumped into terror-related actions whereas some accused have been additionally related with the homicide of Punjabi singer Moosewala, which has been being probed by the Punjab police.
The company took over an investigation after the Delhi police particular cell registered two FIRs below the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in opposition to 10 gangsters who belong to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Bambiha gang and the Neeraj Bawana gang.
The current sensational crimes and extortion calls by felony syndicates and gangsters to businessmen and professionals, together with docs, had created widespread scare among the many individuals, officers within the company mentioned. These gangs have been utilizing our on-line world to publicise these crimes to create terror among the many public at giant, the officers mentioned.
The NIA investigations additionally revealed that such felony acts weren’t remoted native incidents however there was a deep-rooted conspiracy amongst terrorists, gangsters and drug smuggling cartels and networks, who have been working from each inside and outdoors the nation.
Many gang leaders and members had fled from India and have been now working from overseas international locations, together with Pakistan, Canada, Malaysia, Australia, the probe company’s assertion mentioned.
Whereas ongoing probes by the NIA in circumstances investigated by the company, just like the killing of Shaurya Chakra awardee Balwinder Singh in Punjab, additionally revealed most of those conspiracies have been being hatched from inside jails of various states and have been being executed by an organised community of operatives based mostly abroad.
Describing the modus operandi, company officers revealed these gangs have been finishing up focused killings, together with these of distinguished individuals, to terrorise most of the people to extort cash for working and selling their felony syndicates and actions. These gangs have been additionally elevating funds to hold out such felony actions by means of smuggling of medication and weapons, they added.
Moosewala was killed in Mansa on Could 29 when he, alongside together with his buddy and cousin, was travelling in a jeep to Jawahar Ke village. A day earlier, the Punjab police pruned his safety cowl on a short lived foundation. Goldy Brar, who’s a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, had claimed the duty for the homicide.
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