Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that NIA has set ‘Gold Standard’ with more than 90 percent conviction rate and NIA has a very important role to play in fulfilling the Prime Minister’s goal of a terror-free India and Zero Tolerance Against Terrorism.
Attending the 13th NIA Day celebrations of National Investigation Agency (NIA) as Chief Guest in New Delhi , he assured the is moving ahead with a policy of zero tolerance against terrorism, and Government of India is fully committed to all assistance required by NIA.
He said India has progressed on the path of development and today in every field, global goals cannot be fulfilled without India, and therefore it is very important to ensure that the nation’s internal security is strong.
Amit Shah said terrorism is a curse for any civilized society, and India has suffered the greatest pain from this curse. There can be no greater violation of human rights than terrorism, that is why, complete eradication of terrorism is very important to protect human rights, NIA should work determinedly to end terrorism.
He appreciated that the NIA has wonderful work over the past seven years in many difficult areas and I would like to make a special mention of Jammu and Kashmir. He said battling terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir is one aspect, but rooting out terrorism is another, and, if we want to uproot terrorism, then we will have to demolish its terror funding systems.
With NIA registering terror funding cases, he is confident that NIA has greatly helped in rooting out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir through registration of terror funding cases after Modi became Prime Minister.
Due to NIA’s alertness, financial routes of terrorists have been shut down, he said that NIA has registered a number of cases against the over ground workers in Jammu and Kashmir and done well in destroying their sleeper cells. The cases registered by the NIA for the first time in 2018 and 2019 have not left easy avenues to provide money to terrorists today, he added and said that this has dealt a severe blow to both their logistics and supply of arms.
