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New Delhi: On Tuesday, an official said The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducts searches at 30 locations in connection to a Khalistan-gangster nexus case in the four states of Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, and the union territory of Chandigarh .
The raids are underway since morning. In Punjab, the raids are taking place in Bilaspur village of Moga district, where the state police are also present. Multiple NIA teams were pressed into the massive operation in close coordination with the concerned state police forces.
The news agency said that raids were also being conducted at the residence of a businessman in Faridkot, Punjab. The raids were conducted at the premises of suspects linked to the case based on specific inputs following interrogation of accused earlier held in the case.
In a statement, NIA said,“NIA is carrying out extensive searches at 30 locations across 4 States of Punjab , Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and UT of Chandigarh in Terrorist-Gangster nexus case.” NIA, in a bid to dismantle the terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler nexus has attached four properties owned by members of the gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s organized terror-crime syndicate.
