New Delhi. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has the highest conviction rate (conviction rate) for crimes at 93.25 per cent among all the investigating agencies in the country.
Speaking on the 13th NIA Raising Day, Shah said that in a short span of 13 years, the agency has registered more than 400 cases, filed charge sheets in 349 cases, arrested 2,494 accused, as well as 391 accused. convicted.
The Union Home Minister said that NIA should make more efforts for 100% conviction rate and recognition as a world class investigating agency.
He said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a terrorism-free India, in recent years, the NIA and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act have been strengthened after amendments by the Parliament.
The Home Minister said, “Earlier, the NIA had the right to declare any terrorist organization as a terrorist organization, but now any person can be declared a terrorist and so far 36 terrorists of different terrorist organizations have been given individual names under the amended UAPA. Has been declared a terrorist.”
He said that now the NIA has been authorized to investigate terror cases involving endangering the interests of Indian citizens in the country or abroad.
Shah said it is necessary to eliminate terrorism to keep human rights intact or destroyed.
Referring to the investigation conducted by the NIA in Jammu and Kashmir, the Home Minister said that the central probe agency has destroyed the terror funding channels of terrorists in the Union Territory.
He said that for the first time in 2018-19, the NIA worked to eliminate terror funding channels in the Union Territory and closed all the pipelines used to fund terrorists there.
“Now it is almost impossible to send terror funding to the Union Territory and all the credit goes to the NIA,” Shah said.
He said that the NIA has registered several cases against overground workers and sleeper cells of terrorist organizations during 2021-22 and ended the supply of arms and logistics.
The Home Minister said that a total of 105 cases have been registered by the NIA in Left Wing Extremism areas in which 876 people have been named and 796 arrested, while charge sheets have been filed in 94 cases and 100 accused have been convicted. has gone.
He said that police and investigative agencies should adopt new investigative techniques based on data and digital evidence and information.
The Union Home Minister further said, “We need to create more databases with the help of digital forensics. Recently, the NIA has been tasked to create a national database on narcotics, counterfeit currencies, terror funding, bomb blasts and terrorism. And the agency is doing it well.”
He said, “Once this becomes a national database, it will be shared by all the investigating agencies including the state police and the data of the states will also be shared by these national agencies which will help in faster investigation, which will ultimately lead to conviction. The rate will be high. The home minister said if the data is kept separately then it is of no use.”
—AnyTV News
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