The homes of notorious criminals Raju Basodi and Akshay Palda were searched by the NIA. According to the NIA, Raju Basodi and Akshay Palda have been charged with committing more than twenty serious criminal acts in North India.
A continuing investigation into gangs and their connections to terrorist organisations led the NIA to conduct searches earlier in the day at many sites across several states in northern India.
To deconstruct and disrupt the increasing connection between terrorists, gangsters, drug smugglers, and traffickers with bases in India and overseas, operations were carried out in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, and the National Capital Region (NCR).
According to a source with knowledge of the situation, several NIA teams carried out these raids at the criminals’ various sites concurrently in collaboration with state police forces based on certain particular information.
Similar searches were carried out by the NIA on September 12 at 50 locations in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, and the NCR area.
The NIA sweep came after the anti-terror agency began looking into this connection after the re-registration of two cases that had previously been filed by the Delhi Police on August 26 of this year. Some of the most desperate gang leaders and their collaborators, both in India and overseas, who are organising and carrying out such criminal and terrorist actions have been found and arrested.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier stated that “recent dramatic crimes and extortion calls by criminal syndicates and gangsters to businesspeople, professions, including physicians, etc., had caused a widespread fear among the populace.”
These gangs used the internet to publicise their atrocities and spread fear among the general people.
The NIA investigations also showed that these illegal activities were part of a widespread conspiracy including terrorists, criminals, and drug trafficking networks and cartels that operated from both inside and outside the nation.
When the NIA conducted its first massive operation against such gangs, it claimed that “many gang leaders and members had escaped from India and were now operating from overseas nations, including Pakistan, Canada, Malaysia, and Australia.”
