GS3 · 15 marks · 250 words

What are organized crimes? Discuss the linkages between organized crime and terrorism. How do such linkages pose internal security challenges to India?

Answered by 4 toppers · CSE 2023–2025

Syllabus: Security challenges and their management in border areas - linkages of organized crime with terrorism.

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The toppers’ answers

Pakshal SecretryAIR 8 · CSE 2025 · 213 wordsTheir whole copy

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Organised crimes are crimes by syndicate of criminals who have an organisation like structure and functioning eg Drug Cartel of Mexico. Linkages between Organised crime & Terrorism Linkages → Organised crime provide

Body · points and prose

l conduct & functioning → Regular employe → Discrete financing sources

Linkages between Organised crime & Terrorism

diagram Organised crime → financing → people → weapon

Terrorism

Linkages → Organised crime provide ① funding for terrorism eg Mumbai 1993 blast (2) Weapons to terrorist eg Afgan Drug trade → Taliban weapons (3) Recruit individual eg Dawood gang → 26/11 Recruitment (4) professional conduct of terrorist (5) Gives information and intelligence eg Myanmar → Saging → NSCN(IM) Region (6) Terrorist provide recognition, fear psycosis among people and objective to organised crimes

Security Challenge

(1) Invisible Handshake → difficulty in detection eg Arms supply through Drones in J&K. (2) Different agencies to deal → no coord- ination eg ED, SFIO → organised crime IB, NIA → terrorism (3) Organised crime tend to support terrorist activity

④ Rising organised crime in India Eg Drug Trafficking - Mundra Port Seizure.

⑤ Terrorist disguised under organised crime umbrella → difficult to prove guilt & deportation Eg Dawood Gang members

⑥ New Mechanism Eg Bitcoin funding ↓ newer challenges youtube Recruitment

Steps Taken ① Recognition of organised crime under Bhartiya Nyay Samhita

② stricter Monitoring Eg Joint coordination.

③ Curbing finances Eg NMFT conference

④ International recognition of

Close · a way forward

linkages Eg FATF.

Thus, we must deal with both threat unitedly

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