Overview
- About 40 premises were searched across Maharashtra’s Padgha-Borivali and Ratnagiri as well as Delhi, Kolkata and Uttar Pradesh, with additional actions reported in Hazaribagh, Prayagraj and Daman.
- The money-laundering probe was launched under the PMLA on the basis of NIA case RC-29/2023, which alleges a highly radicalised module involved in recruitment, training and IED fabrication.
- Officials reported recoveries of roughly Rs 3.70 crore in cash and about Rs 6 crore in gold and jewellery, the freezing of 25 bank accounts, and the seizure of digital devices, documents and radical literature.
- Investigators are mapping money trails linked to illegal cutting and smuggling of khair wood, with suspected hawala transactions identified and forest authorities alerted to suspected contraband timber.
- ED teams operated with ATS and central security support in sensitive areas, and forensic analysis and further summons are expected, with no fresh arrests announced from the latest operation.