NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested a key logistics provider in the cases relating to terrorist-gangster nexus — wherein criminal gangs, mostly operating out of Punjab and Haryana, were allegedly carrying out killings and other criminal activities to terrorise the people and extorting money to fund their criminal syndicates and activities — from Sirsa, Haryana.
Chhotu Ram Bhaat r/o Chautala Village in Sirsa was acting as a weapons supplier for these criminal gangs and also providing the Bambiha gang members with hideouts ahead of and after committing the crime, said NIA.
NIA had on December 21, 2022 carried out searches at two locations in Sirsa, Haryana (including the house of Chhotu Bhaat in Chautala Village) to dismantle and disrupt the emerging nexus between terrorists, gangsters and weapons suppliers based in India and abroad.
An NIA statement on Tuesday said a few gang leaders and their associates based in India and abroad, who are spearheading and carrying out such terror and criminal activities, were identified and booked in two cases — RC-38/2022/NIA/DLI and RC-39/2022/NIA/DLI — registered by the NIA in August, 2022. The cases relate to the involvement of gangs in different kinds of criminal activities, including killings, to terrorise the people to extort money for running and promoting their criminal syndicates and activities. These gangs — based in India and abroad and allegedly conspiring to carry out terrorist acts in Delhi and other parts of the country — were raising funds to carry out criminal activities through smuggling of guns and weapons.
Bhaat’s arrest, NIA said on Tuesday, is aimed at dismantling the illegal arms support infrastructure, apart from the hideouts of absconders of Bambiha led terror-criminal syndicate. The gangs were taking advantage of the border location of their hideout with Punjab. Further, investigations will continue to dismantle such terror networks as well as their funding and support infrastructure.
“NIA investigation is aimed at identifying critical elements of the support infrastructure of terror-criminal syndicate and subsequently, taking decisive action against those involved,” the Central investigation agency underlined.
Chhotu Ram Bhaat r/o Chautala Village in Sirsa was acting as a weapons supplier for these criminal gangs and also providing the Bambiha gang members with hideouts ahead of and after committing the crime, said NIA.
NIA had on December 21, 2022 carried out searches at two locations in Sirsa, Haryana (including the house of Chhotu Bhaat in Chautala Village) to dismantle and disrupt the emerging nexus between terrorists, gangsters and weapons suppliers based in India and abroad.
An NIA statement on Tuesday said a few gang leaders and their associates based in India and abroad, who are spearheading and carrying out such terror and criminal activities, were identified and booked in two cases — RC-38/2022/NIA/DLI and RC-39/2022/NIA/DLI — registered by the NIA in August, 2022. The cases relate to the involvement of gangs in different kinds of criminal activities, including killings, to terrorise the people to extort money for running and promoting their criminal syndicates and activities. These gangs — based in India and abroad and allegedly conspiring to carry out terrorist acts in Delhi and other parts of the country — were raising funds to carry out criminal activities through smuggling of guns and weapons.
Bhaat’s arrest, NIA said on Tuesday, is aimed at dismantling the illegal arms support infrastructure, apart from the hideouts of absconders of Bambiha led terror-criminal syndicate. The gangs were taking advantage of the border location of their hideout with Punjab. Further, investigations will continue to dismantle such terror networks as well as their funding and support infrastructure.
“NIA investigation is aimed at identifying critical elements of the support infrastructure of terror-criminal syndicate and subsequently, taking decisive action against those involved,” the Central investigation agency underlined.