New Delhi: NIA The National Investigation Agency raided 122 locations across six states to take action in serious cases involving terrorist activities, smuggling, and gangster groups based in countries including Pakistan and Canada.
NIA teams raided a few suspected houses in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh, according to the information available thus far. At roughly 4 a.m., an NIA team of around a dozen officials travelled to all of these places.
#WATCH | NIA conducts raid at the apartment of one Vikas Singh in Lucknow's Gomti Nagar extension area as a part of searches across 100 locations in six states in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases pic.twitter.com/6Jp2T0vkB5
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NIA officer said, “Searches are on in connection with three cases registered by NIA. The raids and searches are part of the crackdown against organised criminal syndicates and networks, top gangsters, and their criminal and business associates based in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.”
According to an officer, the inquiry will continue to demolish such terror networks, as well as their finance and support infrastructure.