New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting searches at over 100 locations across six states Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases.
The anti-terror agency is conducting searches in close coordination with the state police forces since early Wednesday at the premises and other places linked to suspects. The searches are being conducted in connection with three separate cases lodged by the NIA last year — RC 37, 38, 39/2022/NIA/DLI.
The NIA is conducting searches in 12 districts of Punjab.
In Moga, the NIA team is conducting a search at a businessman’s house at Rajinder Nagar in Moga. Separate teams are searching houses of terrorists and gangsters at Talwandi Bhangeria, Dhurkot and Nidhawala villages.
The NIA is searching two places in Muktsar district and three in Ferozepur.
In Haryana, the agency is searching places in Sirsa, Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh and Gurugram. The house of a businessman is being raided in Gurugram.