Anti-Terror Conference: Send competent officers to NIA for agency’s growth, probe culture, says Union Home Secy to states

In a connection Friday, an NIA spokesperson said that the league concluded with a statement among assorted cardinal and authorities agencies and constabulary forces connected the request for stronger collaborative efforts backed by a standardised strategy to combat the menace of terrorism, peculiarly with respect to cybercrime and fiscal terrorism.

During the conference, marked by a bid of brainstorming sessions, the spokesperson said, “there was a wide statement that portion UAPA is simply a almighty ineligible instrumentality to tackle terror, it should beryllium applied cautiously and judiciously to debar imaginable misuse and guarantee its effectiveness successful combating terrorism.”

“The league focused connected the request for a unified attack to woody with coercion crossed states successful the involvement of nationalist security. Consensus emerged during the sessions connected the value of a holistic, well-rounded strategy, encompassing the full nationalist model extending from the authorities down to the lowest levels of policing and investigation,” the spokesperson said.

In his concluding remarks, Mohan called for enhanced capacity-building astatine the state- level to combat terrorism. The NIA volition beryllium conducting respective much capacity-building sessions for states, helium said, adding that much National Forensic Science University (NFSU) campuses and CFSLs were besides successful the pipeline.

“The Home Secretary spoke extensively connected the relation of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) successful dealing with fiscal and cyber-related crimes successful a coordinated and broad manner. Taking disconnected from the Union Home Minister’s comments, helium reiterated request for each constabulary and investigative agencies and forces to enactment together,” the spokesperson said.

“The league connected lawsuit studies successful panic investigations proved to beryllium an highly absorbing facet of the conference, with astir participants keenly pursuing the communicative of the high-profile Rameshwaram café blast,” the spokesperson said.