NIA has checked terror funding, says Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been able to instill a sense of fear among those indulging in “terror funding”.

Speaking after inaugurating a new building of the NIA here, Singh also said that the agency has also helped bring down the incidents of stone-pelting in Kashmir. “Many people, who indulged in terror funding are in its custody,” he added.

“The NIA has emerged as a credible investigating agency, it enjoys freedom in its work and there is no interference in its working,’’ the minister said. Singh said that since its inception in 2009, the NIA has worked out 95 per cent of the 165 cases it investigated and secured conviction in 94 per cent of the cases.

The Union minister also said that Maoism had declined by 40 per cent and militancy in the Northeast had registered a decline of 75 per cent owing to the NIA. Singh said that the NIA was trying to trace the source of fake currency in the country.The home minister underlined the need for better coordination among different intelligence and investigation agencies in the states and the Centre for combating anti-national elements.