For the past decade, Borivali-Padgha, a village in Maharashtra’s Thane district, located 53 km north of Mumbai, has frequently figured in the news and public perception as a centre of subversive activities. It has also consistently remained on the radar of national security agencies. In the last two years alone, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), and the Thane rural police have carried out multiple raids here, including large coordinated searches in 2024 and 2025.

In the most recent raid on Thursday, the ED conducted searches at 40 locations across multiple states and districts, including the Padgha-Borivali region, as part of a money-laundering probe linked to cases registered by the NIA and Maharashtra A

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