In a significant blow to the multi-state terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler community, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has hooked up 5 properties owned by members of the organised crime syndicates in Delhi and Haryana.
Four of the overall properties hooked up are in Haryana and one in Delhi– a transfer in continuation of NIA’s offensive to dismantle the terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler community.
NIA stated these attachments and seizures have been accomplished in the wake of the latest searches performed at 76 places linked with gangsters and their associates in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi/ NCR in February this yr.
These properties have been seized in reference to NIA’s probe in circumstances in opposition to three main organised crime syndicates beneath Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in August 2022 who had unfold their mafia-style felony networks in the northern states and had been concerned in many sensational crimes, such because the homicide of fashionable singer Sidhu Moosewala and largescale extortions from businessmen and professionals.
Their crimes included the killing of Maharashtra builder, Sanjay Biyani, and Sandeep Nangal Ambia, a global Kabbadi organizer in Punjab. Many of those conspiracies had been discovered to have been masterminded from overseas, together with Pakistan and Canada, or by leaders of Organised Criminal Syndicates based mostly inside jails.
The Properties hooked up had been discovered to be ‘proceeds of terrorism’, which had been used for hatching terror conspiracies and execution of crimes, stated the NIA.The properties hooked up embrace a home of Asif Khan in Delhi, a home and agricultural land in three completely different places belonging to Surender Singh alias Chiku in the Mahendragarh district of Haryana.
Asif Khan was in offering weapons and logistics assist to the gangsters, together with a protected haven. Surender alias Chiku is a detailed affiliate of Naresh Sethi, Anil Chippi and Raju Basodi, infamous mafia leaders, who had been earlier arrested by the NIA. He had been concerned in a number of felony circumstances of homicide, kidnapping and extortion. He has been instrumental in investing the ‘proceeds of terror’ and crime in actual property and different companies.
“The drive to disrupt and dismantle such terror and mafia networks and their support infrastructure and to attach and seize their properties, which have been derived from ‘proceeds of terrorism and crime’ would be intensified in the coming days, along with Police forces of various states,” added the NIA.
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