Nalanda, April 6 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday conducted searches at 10 locations in Bihar's Nalanda in a multi-state illegal arms and ammunition trafficking case, originating from the state and spread across various parts of Northern India.

The raids are underway from early morning with multiple NIA teams, in close coordination with the state police force, carrying out the operations at the premises and hideouts of suspects linked to the case the agency registered last year.

In December last year, the NIA had arrested the linchpin, identified as Kamalkant Verma alias Uncle Ji, from Bihar's Patna-- the 11th accused in the case (RC-01/2025/NIA/PAT).

The NIA investigations have revealed that Kamalkant played a vita...