The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday (June 30), in collaboration with the police forces of Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, announced the establishment of a collective institutionalised mechanism for real-time as well as regular information sharing and coordinated action and operations against the gangster eco-system in the northern region.
A decision was also made to establish 'Joint Listing Committee' with representative officers from the NIA and the police forces of the three states to forces to list out and map the entire network of the various criminal syndicates active in the northern states and union territories, a spokesperson of the federal agency said in a statement.
Monthly meetings with stakeholders
The spokesperson further informed that it was also decided to hold meeting on a monthly basis of all the stakeholders to address the issue of organised crimes and criminals in the region.
These decisions were taken at a high-level interstate coordination meeting held in Panchkula, Haryana, under the chairmanship of NIA Director General Dinkar Gupta.
During the meeting, discussions were held on activities of leaders and members of organised criminal syndicates and groups operating in the northern states and the ongoing investigations in the various criminal cases connected to them, according to the statement.
Interventions required at structural and operational levels to dismantle the terror syndicate ecosystem were discussed threadbare and it was decided to formulate an institutionalised mechanism for the timely sharing of actionable inputs with all the stakeholders, the statement said.The growing nexus between criminals and gangsters, with their interstate linkages and conflicts, has become a cause of concern for the northern states.
The foot soldiers, recruits and harbourers, etc. of these criminal-gangster syndicates are spread across north Indian states and require a coordinated and synergised effort by the police of different states to deal with them effectively, according to the statement.
During the meeting, the NIA, which is investigating three such cases against criminal-terror syndicates, shared its findings and observations on the methodology adopted by the syndicates operating from jails.
(With PTI inputs)
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