NIA raids 32 places in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab in terror-gangster case

The National Investigation Agency on anuary 11, 2024, conducted searches at 32 locations in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab

In another major step towards demolishing the terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler nexus in the country, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday, January 11, 2024, conducted searches at 32 locations in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, officials said.

The raids began early this morning and multiple teams of the anti-terror agency conducted searches in close coordination with state police forces.

Jhajjar and Sonipat in Haryana are among other places being searched by the agency.

Agency sleuths searched premises of members linked to dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's organised terror-crime syndicate.

The raids are being conducted days after the NIA on January 6 attached four properties owned by Lawrence Bishnoi.

Of these properties, three were immovable and one was movable. The properties were attached in a coordinated swoop by the NIA teams in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, of 1967 earlier.

The NIA has said it found all these properties to be 'proceeds of terrorism', used for hatching terror conspiracies and executing serious crimes. The properties attached include Flat-77/4, Ashrey-1, Sulabh Awas Yojana, Sector-1, Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, belonging to Vikas Singh, a harborer of the terror gang in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.