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| Crime syndicates engage corporate lawyers | | Strong nexus between crime and terrorism: IB | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, DEC 8
"Behind every terrorist is a hardcore criminal". This is the finding of Avinash Mohananey, Joint Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in New Delhi. And he is convinced of the strong nexus between organised crime and terrorism.
Avinash Mohananey, who has spent most of his career in tackling terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, has observed: "If organised crime has to be dealt thoroughly, India must enhance its international cooperation for the extradition and deportation of fugitives".
"That is because it has a global spread with criminals sitting in one place and carrying out their crimes elsewhere", he was quoted as saying at a national seminar on organised crime to mark the celebration of 150 years of Mumbai Police.
Mohananey opined that the enactment of a central legislation, similar to the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, would go a long way towards tackling organised crime in the country. He said: "It should be a comprehensive law that covers witness protection, a speedy trial, confiscation of proceeds of crime, undercover operations and training at police station levels to investigate complicated crimes".
Mohananey has recommended that since there is no coordination mechanism for the collection of tactical and strategic intelligence at the national level, a nodal agency must be set up.
What is also worrying, he felt, is that crime syndicates engage corporate lawyers and experts. In the case of Aftab Ansari, the mastermind behind the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002, "we know that his lawyer even travelled to Pakistan to meet Ansari's relatives and wife, who is based in Rawalpindi".
"There are no legal provisions to book chartered accountants and lawyers who help crime syndicates once the police prove they are in connivance with the underworld," he said. |
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