The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids across nine locations in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in connection with an ongoing probe into terror outfits conspiring to smuggle weapons into India, the agency said in a statement.

It searched the premises of suspects in the “terror-gangster syndicate case” in Palwal, Faridabad and Gurgaon districts of Haryana, Jalandhar district of Punjab and Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh. The searches, the agency said, yielded "incriminating" materials, including mobile phones, digital devices, banking transactions and property-related documents.

“In a massive crackdown in the terror-gangster nexus case, the NIA on Wednesday conducted extensive searches on premises linked with associates of the Davinder Bambiha syndicate at nine locations in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,” the agency said.

Bambiha, a gangster, was killed in a police encounter in 2016.

The Bambiha gang members are considered rivals of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his associates, an NIA official said, adding: “The searches were part of
the NIA’s continuous crackdown on terror outfits engaged in criminal conspiracies to smuggle terrorist hardware, such as arms, ammunition, narcotics and explosives
into India.”