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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) said a bid of milestone achievements marked the twelvemonth 2025, cardinal among them being an implicit 92% condemnation rate, the extradition of 2008 Mumbai panic attacks accused Tahawwur Rana from the United States, and the apprehension of respective terrorists and their associates progressive successful the dastardly Pahalgam and Delhi attacks.
With its complaint expanse filed against 7 accused, including the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its affiliate The Resistance Front (TRF), the NIA wrapped up the twelvemonth with “a large occurrence successful its investigation” into the Pahalgam attack.
The full arrests made by the NIA crossed cardinal categories of crimes successful the 55 cases registered during the twelvemonth stood astatine 276 (67 accused successful ‘Jihadi’ cases, 74 successful Left-Wing Extremism cases, 37 successful Northeast insurgency cases, 28 successful cases against pro-Khalistan outfits/elements, 11 successful gangster-related cases and 59 successful others). The bureau notched a grounds 66 convictions and chargesheeted 320 accused successful 2025, attached 12 assets linked to absconding terrorists and criminals.
Deportation of Anmol Bishnoi
The NIA’s different accomplishment was the deportation of “gangster” Anmol Bishnoi, member of Lawrence Bishnoi, from the United States. He had been absconding since 2022. The bureau took up 9 investigations against LWE (Left-Wing Extremism) members and apical leadership, and chargesheeted 34 of them, during the year.
Search operations successful large panic and organised transgression networks led to the apprehension of 200 accused persons. “These searches and arrests, which included clampdowns successful cases related to designated Khalistani terrorists similar Goldy Brar, were portion of the NIA’s concerted efforts to dismantle specified networks,” said the bureau successful a statement.
The NIA made important advancement successful cases related to quality trafficking networks, peculiarly those linked to the susceptible younker being duped by transnational syndicates connected the pretext of lucrative opportunities overseas. “The bureau besides made important advancement successful cases of cross-border quality trafficking, involving Bangladeshi and Myanmar nationals, arsenic good arsenic successful cases of Indian younker being forced into cyberslavery successful the Golden Triangle portion successful Laos and Cambodia,” it said.
Other important investigations were against assorted insurgent groups, specified arsenic ULFA-I and NSCN-IM, successful the Northeast. Major breakthroughs were made successful galore cases related to the targeted killings of Praveen Nettaru, Ramalingam, Kerala Professor T.J. Joseph, Ratan Dubey, Sreenivasan, Suhas Shetty, Dinesh Pusu Gawade, and Priyangu Pandey.
A bid of convictions were secured successful the Pakistan-linked Visakhapatnam Navy espionage lawsuit of 2019. The NIA besides arrested/chargesheeted respective accused successful assorted fake Indian currency notes cases crossed States.
Technical advancement
The NIA made immoderate large method and operational advancements aimed astatine strengthening its probe and modernising its capabilities. A ‘Lost/Looted Recovered’ Government Weapons Database and an Organised Crime Network Database were developed to amended the anti-terror capabilities not conscionable of itself, but of each the cardinal information and investigative agencies successful the state done real-time accusation sharing.
“In a important measurement towards fostering inter-agency collaboration and empowering instrumentality enforcement officials to combat the increasing challenges posed by cryptocurrency-related transgression activities, the NIA conducted an precocious store connected cryptocurrency investigations astatine the commencement of the year. Infrastructural improvement and enlargement remained an ongoing absorption country of the agency’s efforts to augment its capableness successful its combat against terror, successful enactment with its committedness to securing the federation against large violent and transgression networks,” said the agency.
