The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday detained several suspects during the searches across six States and one Union Territory as part of the crackdown on the terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler nexus, linked to Canada-based “listed terrorist” Arshdeep Singh Gill aka Arsh Dalla and other gangsters.
The raids started in the early hours with the assistance of the local police. The NIA teams zeroed in on 53 locations from where pistols, ammunition and a large number of digital devices were seized. They included places in Punjab’s Amritsar, Moga, Fazilka, Ludhiana, Mohali, Faridkot, Barnala, Bhatinda, Ferozpur, SAS Nagar, Amritsar and Jalandhar.
The searches were also conducted in Rohtak, Sirsa, Fatehabad and Faridabad in Haryana; Sri Ganga Nagar, Jhunjhunu, Hanumangarh and Jodhpur in Rajasthan; Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh; Dehradun and Udhamsingh Nagar in Uttarakhand; in and around Delhi; and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
