“The properties attached by us were acquired from funds generated from carrying out different types of terrorist and criminal extortion activities,” the NIA said.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 8, 2023 04:36 IST
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) attached five more properties, four in Haryana and one in Delhi (Photo: Representational)
By India Today News Desk: Intensifying its drive against terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler networks, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday attached five more properties in Delhi and Haryana. The properties were attached following investigations in cases against three major organized crime syndicates and gangs being operated by Pakistan-based Harvinder Rinda, Lawrence Bishnoi and Bambiha group.
Of the five properties, four are in Haryana and one in Delhi owned by members of organized crime syndicates operating in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi.
The attached properties were found acquired from funds generated from carrying out different types of terrorist and criminal extortion activities and were thus ‘proceeds of terrorism’, the NIA said. They were being used for hatching terror conspiracies and execution of crimes, the probe agency said.
The properties attached in action by NIA earlier in the day include the houses of Chhotu Ram at Chautala in Sirsa district in Haryana, Jagseer Singh at Takhatmal in Sirsa district, Virender Singh in Yamuna Nagar district in Haryana, and lands of Raju at Basaudi in Sonipat district in Haryana and Satyawan Sehrawat at Dariyapur in Delhi.
The NIA said that Kala Rana, Chhotu Ram and Jagseer Singh used to provide weapons and arrange logistics, including safe sanctuaries, to the gang members. Satyawan and Raju had also harboured gangsters. They had a major role to play in the generation of funds to support the operations of terror-crime syndicates. Raju had laundered the money by investing the ‘proceeds of terrorism’ in real estate business and other businesses, including liquor.
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The NIA has claimed that their action has hit the weapon supply chain of the gangsters.
As of now, the NIA has carried out over 230 raids across Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi-NCR in this matter and arrested 27 gangster-leaders, which led to the recovery of 38 weapons. The NIA also froze 87 bank accounts in the matter.
“In addition, Canada-based Arsh Dalla and Pakistan-based Harvinder Rinda have been listed as ‘terrorists’ by the MHA under UAPA in the recent past. The drive to choke these organised crime networks of funding and to dismantle their ecosystem by attaching and seizing their properties, derived from ‘proceeds of terrorism and crime’ would be intensified in the coming days, along with police forces of various states,” the NIA said.
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