CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: A day after filing a chargesheet against gangster Goldy Brar in the Karni Sena leader Gogamedi’s murder in Jaipur, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday searched several locations in Punjab. The raids were conducted at the premises belonging to the associates of Goldy Brar, the NIA said in a release.
A total of nine locations across Mohali, Patiala, Hoshiarpur and Fatehgarh Sahib were searched by the NIA sleuths as a part of investigations into an extortion and firing case against Goldy Brar. Several digital devices were seized from the locations, the central agency said.
The NIA has released telephone numbers for the public to share information about the gangster and his associates or to reveal any threat calls they may have received from the gang. “The information can be shared on landline number 0172-2682901 or mobile number 7743002947 (For Telegram/ WhatsApp). The identity of the informer will be kept a secret,” the official release said.
The case was registered by the police on January 20, 2024, and the NIA took over the probe on March 18. Investigations so far have revealed that Goldy Brar, along with one Goldy of Punjab’s Rajpurahad hatched a criminal conspiracy to generate funds by demanding extortion money from businessmen of Chandigarh and surrounding areas. They were also involved in smuggling and sale of narcotics and arming Brar’s gang.
As per NIA investigations, Goldy Brar and his associates based abroad were continuously recruiting vulnerable youth into their gangs, using them for identification of extortion targets, firing in front of houses of those targets who refuse to pay the extortion money, and inducing them in sale and purchase of narcotics, weapon smuggling etc.