New Delhi. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is taking steps towards ending the network of terrorists, gangsters and drug smuggling in the country. In another such major step, the AIA on Saturday (6 December) attached four properties of members of the organized terror-crime syndicate of gangster Lawrence Bishwoi.
Of these properties, one is movable and three are immovable. Properties were attached by the NIA in coordinated raids in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh under the provisions of UAPA. According to news agency ANI, NIA attached a residential house in Jammu and Kashmir in the arms seizure case. NIA said that it found that all these properties are proceeds of terrorism, which are used to hatch terrorist conspiracies and commit serious crimes.
The attached properties include flat-77/4 of Ashray-1 of Sulabh Awas Yojana in Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow, which belongs to Vikas Singh, the patron of the terrorist gang in Lucknow. The other two attached properties are of village Bishanpura in Fazilka, Punjab, which were owned by accused Dalip Kumar alias Bhola alias Dalip Bishnoi. A Fortuner car registered in the name of Joginder Singh, resident of Yamunanagar, Haryana, was also seized.
According to the NIA investigation, Vikas Singh is an associate of Lawrence Bishnoi, who provided shelter to terrorists, including the accused involved in the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on the Punjab Police headquarters. Joginder Singh is the father of Kala Rana, a gangster close to Lawrence. Joginder Singh is accused of allowing his Fortuner car to be used to carry arms and ammunition for terrorist acts. The property of accused Dalip Kumar was being used to keep weapons and provide shelter to the members of the terrorist gang. In August 2022, the NIA had registered a case under UAPA against the organized crime-syndicate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his associates.
