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Amid a propulsion by the Ministry of Home Affairs to each constabulary departments successful the state to actively usage the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), chiefly intended arsenic a counterterrorism tool, a elder Delhi Police serviceman said the intelligence-sharing level has proved instrumental successful dismantling organised transgression networks.
“Earlier, getting accusation astir a fishy progressive seeking permissions and sending requests to respective agencies. Now, with NATGRID, accusation gathering has go overmuch easier arsenic each information are disposable connected 1 platform,” the serviceman told The Hindu.
The maestro database of NATGRID, conceived aft the 2008 Mumbai panic attacks, contains accusation from astatine slightest 21 organisations. It stores accusation connected taxation records, slope accounts, fiscal transactions, immigration, conveyance ownership, toll payments, and bid and formation bookings, among others. It besides provides single-window entree to FIRs registered astatine constabulary stations crossed the country.
‘Not each aboard’
The serviceman said not each instrumentality enforcement agencies person afloat adopted the information-sharing rule underpinning the platform, citing the November 10, 2025 Red Fort panic incident, which claimed the lives of 15 people. Details astir Umar-un-Nabi, who was killed portion driving the explosives-laden vehicle, were not uploaded to the level by the constabulary departments of 2 States, helium said.
“There were nary information connected Nabi oregon his conveyance connected the portal contempt the propulsion for inter-State quality sharing,” helium noted. However, the serviceman added that Delhi Police, which was probing the lawsuit earlier it was handed implicit to the National Investigation Agency, was capable to larn a batch astir the different accused done NATGRID, which helped place the suspects’ hideouts and movements.
Checks and balances
NATGRID has aided the Delhi constabulary not conscionable successful investigating high-profile cases but besides successful their regular investigations, the serviceman said.
“When a golden kalash (urn) was stolen during a Jain ceremonial adjacent Red Fort, we matched the CCTV representation of the fishy with the photograph connected his passport disposable connected NATGRID,” the serviceman explained.
Another serviceman said a log is maintained for each requests to retrieve accusation from the database, adjacent for persons not named successful FIRs, to guarantee accountability. “Officers person to instrumentality support from their superiors to entree data, and a log is maintained against their names.”
