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  • NIA raids 53 places across country, detains suspects connected to Canada-based gangsters

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at 53 locations in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Chandigarh and detained several suspects connected to a bunch of Canada-based gangsters.

    The gangsters include Arsh Dalla, Lawrence Bishnoi, Sukha Duneke, Harry Maur, Narender alias Lali, Kala Jatheri, and Deepak Tinu. 

    Pistols, ammunition, digital devices, and materials were seized during the day-long raids.

    These were the seventh in the series of such crackdowns launched by NIA following the registration of five cases since August 2022.

    The cases relate to conspiracies of targeted killings, funding for pro-Khalistan outfits, and extortion by the gangsters.

    Wednesday’s action focused on weapon suppliers, financiers and logistics providers associated with various gangs working with drug smugglers and terror outfits based in Pakistan, the UAE, Canada, Portugal and other countries.

    NIA probe revealed that conspiracies were hatched in jails of different states and were executed by a network of operatives based abroad. 

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    NIA crackdown on terror-gangster-smuggler nexus; several detained after raids in 5 states, 2 UTs

    Sukhdool Singh killing fallout: Punjab Police launch offensive on aides of wanted gangsters

    CHANDIGARH: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at 53 locations in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Chandigarh and detained several suspects connected to a bunch of Canada-based gangsters.

    The gangsters include Arsh Dalla, Lawrence Bishnoi, Sukha Duneke, Harry Maur, Narender alias Lali, Kala Jatheri, and Deepak Tinu. 

    Pistols, ammunition, digital devices, and materials were seized during the day-long raids.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    These were the seventh in the series of such crackdowns launched by NIA following the registration of five cases since August 2022.

    The cases relate to conspiracies of targeted killings, funding for pro-Khalistan outfits, and extortion by the gangsters.

    Wednesday’s action focused on weapon suppliers, financiers and logistics providers associated with various gangs working with drug smugglers and terror outfits based in Pakistan, the UAE, Canada, Portugal and other countries.

    NIA probe revealed that conspiracies were hatched in jails of different states and were executed by a network of operatives based abroad. 

    READ MORE | 

    NIA crackdown on terror-gangster-smuggler nexus; several detained after raids in 5 states, 2 UTs

    Sukhdool Singh killing fallout: Punjab Police launch offensive on aides of wanted gangsters

  • Gangster, two associates killed in police ‘encounter’ in Punjab

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH: Three gangsters were killed in an ‘encounter’ with the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab Police on Wednesday.

    The alleged encounter took place at New Fatehgarh Sahib Market in Bassi Pathana of Fatehgarh Sahib.

    A gangster Tejinder Singh alias Teja and two of his associates were killed in the alleged encounter. Teja is reported to be a mastermind in the Phillaur shoot-out case in which a police constable Kuldeep Singh Bajwa was killed.

    Director General of Police, Gaurav Yadav said that a team led by Additional DGP Promod Ban on Wednesday evening managed to trace the location of Teja. The police team was chasing his vehicle in which Teja and his associates were travelling, when in an attempt to escape Teja and his men opened fire at the police team. The police team fired in return. During the exchange of fire, Teja and one of his associates were killed on the spot. Another associate of the gangster suffered injuries. He was admitted to a hospital where he succumbed. 

    The police team recovered six pistols from the vehicle.

    “During this course of action, a police officer sustained bullet injury, while another suffered fracture on his leg,” Gaurav Yadav said.

    CHANDIGARH: Three gangsters were killed in an ‘encounter’ with the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab Police on Wednesday.

    The alleged encounter took place at New Fatehgarh Sahib Market in Bassi Pathana of Fatehgarh Sahib.

    A gangster Tejinder Singh alias Teja and two of his associates were killed in the alleged encounter. Teja is reported to be a mastermind in the Phillaur shoot-out case in which a police constable Kuldeep Singh Bajwa was killed.

    Director General of Police, Gaurav Yadav said that a team led by Additional DGP Promod Ban on Wednesday evening managed to trace the location of Teja. The police team was chasing his vehicle in which Teja and his associates were travelling, when in an attempt to escape Teja and his men opened fire at the police team. The police team fired in return. During the exchange of fire, Teja and one of his associates were killed on the spot. Another associate of the gangster suffered injuries. He was admitted to a hospital where he succumbed. 

    The police team recovered six pistols from the vehicle.

    “During this course of action, a police officer sustained bullet injury, while another suffered fracture on his leg,” Gaurav Yadav said.