New Delhi
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided 14 locations in Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday as part of its ongoing investigations into the attacks on the Consulate General of India in San Francisco, USA.
The districts of Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar in Haryana, as well as Moga, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, Mohali, and Patiala in Punjab, were among those that the NIA raided.
As a result of the crackdown, other incriminating documents and digital data pertaining to the accused individuals were seized.
The action was taken in an attempt to fully expose the conspiracy that underpinned the attacks on July 2, 2023, and March 19, 2023, which involved criminal trespass, vandalism, damage to public property, and attempts to harm Indian Consulate officials in San Francisco and set the Consulate building on fire.
In order to identify and bring charges against the attackers and assailants of the attacks, as well as to send a clear message to such anti-Indian elements, the NIA has been looking into the case. In August 2023, a team from the National Institute of Aging (NIA) traveled to San Francisco to look into reports of violent arson and vandalism attacks on the Consulate, which had left the community and staff terrified.
The NIA stated that it is using crowd sourced data to identify and gather details about US-based organizations and people connected to these violent incidents as part of its investigations.
The agency has already identified a few people who were involved in the repeated attacks conspiracy. These comprise the assailants as well as a large number of their foreign and Indian associates.
