On Tuesday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) team raided five places in the district including the house of the block head of Aam Aadmi Party. During the raid which lasted for about two to three hours, the NIA team seized some documents from the house of the said people and ordered them to appear in the NIA office on March 5. The NIA team visited Baliyanwali, Rampura villages of the district and Doomwali and Pathrala villages of Sangat Mandi.
The team did not tell the reasons for this raid, but during the raid on the house of Sonu Kumar, resident of village Pathrala police station, Sangat district, Bathinda, questions were asked about his involvement in the farmers' movement. He has been called to Delhi on 5 March.
According to the information, on Tuesday, the NIA team raided the house of AAP block head Gurvinder Singh alias Neeta of Doomwali police station, Sangat district, Bathinda, village of Sangat Mandi. This raid lasted for about three hours. Although the NIA team has not found anything from Neeta's house, the team has acquired some documents as evidence.
After this, the NIA team visited the house of Sonu Kumar, resident of Pathrala police station, Sangat district, village of Sangat Mandi. The NIA team also raided the house of Sonu Sharma in Pathrala village. He has been called to Delhi on 5 March. Sonu Sharma says that he is a small farmer and doesn't know why NIA raided his house. The NIA team asked the people and women present in the house whether their son was going to the farmers' movement. He said that being farmers, they are in support of the movement following which the NIA team left after telling him to report to NIA office on March 5
The third raid took place at the residence of Iqbal Singh, resident of Farid Nagar Mandi, Rampura police station city. During this raid which lasted for about two hours, the house was searched by the team. However, the NIA team refused to give any information related to the raid to the media. While leaving, the team officials gave a notice to the family in the name of Iqbal Singh in which they have been ordered to reach the NIA headquarters in Delhi on March 5 in regards to an investigation in a criminal case. On the other hand, the family members said that the team told them that their father had to be interrogated in connection to a ‘conflict’. He said that he was not given any further information by the team in this matter.
Apart from this, raids were also conducted at the residence of Sher Balwant Singh resident of village Baliyanwali police station Baliyanwali and the residence of Jaggi Khan resident village Kotra Kora police station Baliyanwali. The raid lasted for about 3 hours following which the NIA took Jaggi Khan's brother Soni Khan with them.