New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency conducted searches at several locations in Chhattisgarh involving suspected overground workers (OGWs) of banned outfit CPI (Maoist), an official statement said on Friday.

Searches were carried out on Thursday in connection with a CPI (Maoist)-led IED attack on a poll party convoy during the 2023 Chhattisgarh Assembly elections in the leftist extremism-hit state.

"Several mobile phones and Rs 2,98,000 in cash were seized during searches from the premises of suspects working as Overground Workers (OGWs)/supporters of Mainpur-Nuapara division of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation." This has been said in the statement issued by NIA.

It said that as part of the agency's investigation into the case, NIA teams conducted extensive searches at the premises of six suspects in the Maoist-affected area of ​​Badegobra village under Mainpur police station area of ​​Gariaband district.

A head constable of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Adhoc 615 Battalion was injured in the attack that took place in November 2023, the statement said.

The NIA, which took over the case in February 2024, had identified CPI (Maoist) cadres as the perpetrators of the attack.