Neeraj Bawana a.k.a Delhi's Dawood among 3 gangsters arrested by NIA in Terror Conspiracy Case

Days after it carried out raids across states to dismantle the "emerging nexus" between terrorists, gangsters and drug-smugglers, the National Investigation Agency on Saturday arrested three leaders of criminal syndicates for allegedly conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.

The arrests were made based on recoveries in the September 12 raids at 50 locations.

The arrested trio  Neeraj Sehrawat alias Neeraj Bawana, Kaushal alias Naresh Choudhary and Bhupinder Singh alias Bhupi Rana is already lodged in Tihar Jail in separate cases registered by the Delhi Police.

The case was initially registered by Special Cell, Delhi Police on August 8 and against eight accused and unknown others that members of a criminal syndicate.

Later on, the probe was taken over by the NIA, which will now look for more details and interrogate the three gangsters.

Sources had reported on September 20 about diaries recovered from Neeraj Bawana's house.

Sources in the NIA claimed the diaries have details which will be cross-checked during Bawana's interrogation.

The diaries reportedly contain details of money to be earned from land-grabbing, monthly payments to other gangsters, spiritual books, and books on global intelligence agencies like Mossad.

An NIA official told sources that documents found in Bawana's house also have details of the recovery to be made from grabbing a plot worth Rs 100 crore. 

He has mentioned his "cut", which is close to 30% of the total value of the property.

The NIA had conducted raids on September 12 in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi to dismantle and disrupt the "emerging nexus" between terrorists, gangsters, drug-smugglers and traffickers based in India and abroad.