A big of incriminating materials, including mobiles/digital devices, banking transactions and property-related documents, were seized during the searches. (File Photo)
Multiple teams of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Wednesday conducted searches astatine 9 locations successful aggregate states arsenic portion of a probe into a conspiracy by panic outfits to smuggle arms and ammunition into the country.
“NIA teams searched the premises of suspects successful the ‘terror-gangster syndicate case’ successful Palwal, Faridabad and Gurugram districts of Haryana, Jalandhar territory of Punjab, and Mathura territory of Uttar Pradesh. A big of incriminating materials, including mobiles/digital devices, banking transactions and property-related documents, were seized during the searches,” an NIA spokesperson said successful a statement.
“In a monolithic crackdown successful the terror-gangster nexus case, the NIA connected Wednesday conducted extended searches astatine premises linked with associates of the Davinder Bambiha syndicate astatine 9 locations successful Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,” the spokesperson said.
Bambiha had been killed successful a constabulary brushwood successful 2016. The Bambiha pack members are considered rivals of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his associates.
Wednesday’s searches were portion of the NIA’s continuous crackdown connected panic outfits engaged successful transgression conspiracies to smuggle violent hardware, specified arsenic arms, ammunition, narcotics, explosives, etc into India. “NIA investigations successful the case, registered connected the directions of the Ministry of Home Affairs, further amusement large-scale attempts by these organisations and terrorists to rise funds for carrying retired panic acts connected Indian soil,” the spokesperson added.