New Delhi, June 26 -- As part of its ongoing investigation in the recent BKI-linked grenade attack at the residence of former Punjab Minister Manoranjan Kalia, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted a series of searches across the state as well as in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

According to an official release, the NIA teams launched searches at 18 locations in the three northern states this morning, and seized various incriminating materials, including mobiles, digital devices and documents.

The searches were conducted at the premises of suspects linked with Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative Kulbir Sidhu, US-based gangster Manish alias Kaka Rana, and their nodes based in India and various other countries...