In a crackdown on the banned terrorist outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday raided 15 locations across Punjab in connection with a grenade attack on a police station in Gurdaspur district in December last year.
The raid was part of an investigation into anti-national activities carried out by a Maoist group led by Sanjay Deepak Rao in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The accused has been identified as Riaz Ahmed alias Hazari, a resident of Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The raids are being conducted in connection with three separate cases lodged by the NIA last year-- RC 37, 38, 39/2022/NIA/DLI.
The anti-terror agency conducted these searches on Sunday at the premises of accused and suspected persons at nine locations in Lohardaga and five locations in Latehar.
The ISKP is an affiliate of the Islamic State group. Raids were conducted on Saturday at four locations in Seoni (Madhya Pradesh) and one location in Pune (Maharashtra).
The raids were conducted in the office of 'Greater Kashmir' on Residency Road area.
