The Nationwide Investigation Company on Tuesday carried out searches at greater than 50 places in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi-NCR area to dismantle the rising narco-terror and prison mafia nexus in India and overseas.
This comes months after the premier probe company recognized and booked gang leaders and associates based mostly in India and overseas who have been finishing up terror and prison actions.
The NIA raids on prime gangsters, their prison and enterprise associates, arms suppliers and unlawful liquor provide mafia have been carried out at 52 places in districts together with Abohar, Bathinda, Muktsar, Moga, Chandigarh, Sonepat, Bharatpur, Alwar, Bulandshahr, Noida and different elements of Delhi NCR.
These raided embrace gangster Sampat Nehra of Rajasthan’s Churu, Jhajjar-based prison Naresh Sethi, Narnaul gangster Surender, Bawana-based Bali, gangster Amit of Outer Delhi’s Tajpur, Amit Dagar of Gurugram, Salim alias Pistol of North East Delhi and others.
Through the searches, the NIA recovered 5 pistols/revolvers. Out of those, 4 pistols have been seized from one Asif Khan in North East Delhi. The probe company mentioned Khan was linked to varied gangsters working in Haryana and Delhi.
A number of incriminating paperwork, digital gadgets, particulars about benami property created by way of proceeds of crime, money, gold bars and gold jewelry from Khurja , Bulandshahar (UP), menace letters, and many others. have additionally been seized by the NIA.
The company mentioned additional investigations will probably be carried out to dismantle such terror networks and their funding infrastructure. Based on preliminary investigations, the raided gangs carried out focused killings and have been elevating funds to hold out such prison actions by way of smuggling of medicine and weapons.
Based on the company, the gangsters had made extortion calls to businessmen, professionals together with docs. The prison syndicates have been utilizing the web to publicise their actions to create worry amongst individuals.
The probe has pointed to a deep-rooted conspiracy amongst terrorists gangsters and drug cartels working from India and overseas. A number of gang leaders and members fled India and at the moment are working from Pakistan, Canada, Malaysia, Australia and many others.
The company is probing circumstances together with the killing of Shaurya Chakra Awardee Balwinder Singh in Punjab which revealed that the majority of those conspiracies have been being hatched from inside jails of various states and have been being executed by an organized community of operatives based mostly overseas.