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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicNational Investigation Agency

Topic: National Investigation Agency

Surge in arrests, 94.7% conviction rate, focus on terrorist-gangster nexus — NIA’s 2023 report card

NIA Sunday said that among its most notable successes in 2023 were operations against 'ISIS, Kashmiri and other Jihadis'. Another focus of agency this yr was Left wing extremism in India.

NIA files chargesheet against doctor from Pune, 5 others in Maharashtra IS module case

National Investigation Agency says that all 6 were 'Islamic State members' & conspired to further terrorist activities to 'strike fear among people and to threaten country's security'.

NIA files 4,000-page chargesheet against six accused in Maharashtra ISIS terror module case

NIA said all 6 are members of ISIS outfit and hatched conspiracy to further terrorist activities with intention to strike fear and terror among people and threaten India’s security.

Delhi Police gather evidence in Israel embassy ‘low intensity’ blast case, ‘identify 2 suspects’

Police say experts have 'lifted exhibits that may have evidentiary relevance' & sent them for forensic examination. Sources add group called Sir Allah Resistance has claimed responsibility.

ED arrests 5 ‘key’ PFI members, already in custody in NIA case, to probe money laundering

The five were aware of processes & activities connected with proceeds of crime & were arrested under PMLA, ED informs court. Gets custody for six days.

96% conviction rate in NIA cases in last 5 years, home ministry tells Rajya Sabha

Between December 2018 & November 2023, ministry handed 324 cases to counter-terrorism agency. Out of 84 judgments in cases NIA probed and chargesheeted since 2019, 81 were convictions.

NIA busts ‘Ballari module’ with arrest of 8 ‘IS operatives’ after raids in four states

Arrests made barely a week after similar action carried out in Maharashtra & Karnataka. Accused were circulating documents for 'recruitment of Mujahideen', says anti-terror agency.

FBI director visits NIA, discusses ‘criminal-terrorist nexus, probe into attack on Indian consulate’

Planned ‘in advance’, FBI chief Christopher Wray’s two-day visit to India comes under shadow of Pannun controversy. He had met CBI head a day earlier.

‘Chinese deep state, cybercrime, Pannun’— key items on agenda for FBI director’s India visit

While it's taking place in shadow of Pannun affair, FBI director's visit was planned 'well in advance' & has been in schedule of directors of intelligence agencies since May, it is learnt.

NIA widens scope of Maharashtra ISIS module probe, nabs leader who declared village ‘liberated zone’

NIA says module leader Saqib Nachan declared Padgha village in rural part of Thane as ‘Al-Sham’, an Arabic word used for Levant or greater Syria.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts training Jammu & Kashmir cops 

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.