NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday performed raids at 14 areas in Punjab and Haryana in reference to its ongoing probe into assaults on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco within the US earlier this yr.

According to NIA spokesperson, these locations positioned in north India had been raided to unravel the whole conspiracy behind the assaults on March 19 and July 2, involving legal trespass, vandalism, injury to public property and makes an attempt to trigger harm to the consulate officers  and set the constructing on fireplace by acts of arson.

The areas raided by the NIA had been unfold throughout the districts of Moga, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, Mohali and Patiala in Punjab and Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar in Haryana.

The crackdown led to the seizure of digital knowledge containing info  associated to the accused individuals, together with different incriminating paperwork,  the spokesperson stated.

Some of the  suspects whose premises had been raided in Punjab on Wednesday allegedly have hyperlinks to outlawed ‘unlawful Association’ Sikhs for Justice the sources stated.

The company transfer  comes two days after it introduced to register a case towards ‘listed individual terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun of the SFJ over his video threatening the passengers flying in Air India and the airways with a worldwide blockade and closure of its operations from November 19.

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