{"id":117522,"date":"2021-07-09T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=117522"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:10:00","slug":"tracking-fugitives-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tracking-fugitives-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking fugitives everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G758OG126.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: India&#8217;s criminal handling system should be aligned to catch fugitives within the country. Because once they leave the country, it becomes difficult to bring them back.<\/p>\n<p><b>Synopsis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the absence of a coordinated database, criminals can go undetected. Hence, robust tracking of fugitives demands the creation of a nationwide database of wanted persons, which should be accessible by the government agencies and the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian law on extradition is spread across the Indian Penal Code as well as various laws pertaining to narcotic drugs, Information Technology, hijacking, and so on.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theoretically, there exists a system of tracking criminals worldwide through Interpol Notices and the sharing of immigration databases of different countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there is <\/span><b>no coordinated system or database<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for tracking criminals or wanted persons domestically.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some police stations do initiate proceedings for attachment of property and declaration of the accused as proclaimed offenders.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the number of cases where coordinated efforts are made to pursue fugitives (domestically or internationally) are hardly documented.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Impact of not having a Domestic Database<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>relatively easy for criminals from one police station\/jurisdiction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to mix into the population in any other area without being detected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The absence creates <\/span><b>a tendency to close investigations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> once the accused have absconded. This reduces the pendency of cases but undermines the administration of justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>What should be done<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>nationwide database of wanted persons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> should be created, which could be accessible by the government agencies and the public.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) and the National Intelligence Grid are efforts in the right direction, but more integration is desirable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A nationwide <\/span><b>system of \u2018Wanted Person Notices<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019, similar to Interpol Notices, is required to track fugitives domestically. Countries like the US already have functional inter-State extradition and fugitive tracking systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The integration between immigration agencies, State police agencies, Interpol-New Delhi, the External Affairs Ministry, and Home Ministry should be enhanced.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further India needs to sign <\/span><b>more bilateral and multilateral conventions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on criminal matters and extradition.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All relevant legal processes and requirements should be incorporated into one consolidated law on international cooperation. This would restrain criminals from absconding abroad.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The entire gamut of activities pertaining to fugitives, from investigation to extradition, needs to be incorporated into a <\/span><b>specialized setup<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with an Integrated International Cooperation Division<\/span><b> (IICD) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the top.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IICD should have linkages with proposed fugitive tracking units at the State level. This would ensure the creation of desired forward-and-backward linkages.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu\u00a0 Relevance: India&#8217;s criminal handling system should be aligned to catch fugitives within the country. Because once they leave the country, it becomes difficult to bring them back. Synopsis: In the absence of a coordinated database, criminals can go undetected. Hence, robust tracking of fugitives demands the creation of a nationwide database of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tracking-fugitives-everywhere\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracking fugitives everywhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704785465},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}