Muzaffarpur Deputy SP A C Gyani said, ” NIA started conducting the raids at 5 am. Sleuths of the federal investigation agency searched the premises of Devmuni Rai in the Kudhni area in connection with its probe into the recovery of one butt and one scope of an illegally procured AK-47 rifle from his possession.”Gyani, however, expressed his inability to disclose the outcome of the search operation. “We are not authorised to share any information. NIA people will give you details of the operation and its outcome,” the Deputy SP said. The name of Saytam of Hajipur in the Vaishali district had also come to light during the investigation. On Wednesday, another team conducted searches at the residential premises of an advocate of the Patna high court on SDO road in Vaishali district. Sources said that the members of the raiding team were looking for documents related to the purchase of land with the money earned through illegal arms smuggling. The operation continued for more than four hours. The advocate’s father Ashok Kumar Sinha confirmed the searches conducted by a Delhi team of the federal agency. Sinha told the media that nothing objectionable was found during the search of the house. “We cooperated with the raiding team,” he added. Authoritative sources said that the Special Task Force (STF) of the Bihar police had recovered an AK-47 assault rifle smuggled from Nagaland from Devmuni Rai’s house during a raid earlier this year.
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