Borders shouldn’t be hindrance to combating crime: Amit Shah

Today, crime and criminals do not recognise borders, hence law enforcement agencies will have to be strengthened to control them, otherwise uncontrolled crime will make trade difficul

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said geographical borders should not be an obstruction but a meeting point for law, while emphasising no country can be safe without being in coordination with other countries a special report in The Tribune, Chandigarh by, Satya Prakash, sayys

Need to strengthen agencies

Today, crime and criminals do not recognise borders, hence law enforcement agencies will have to be strengthened to control them, otherwise uncontrolled crime will make trade difficult. Amit Shah, Union Home Minister

Addressing the valedictory session of the ‘Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) — Commonwealth Attorneys and Solicitors General Conference (CASGC) 2024’ here, Shah said, “NowTrade and crime, both are becoming borderless and at such times, to deal with trade disputes and crime in a borderless manner, we will have to start some new system and tradition.”

“No one can deny geographical borders and barriers even in today’s interconnected world. But both barriers and borders have been removed from trade, commerce, communication and crime. Global organised crime is now becoming very deep,” he said.

The Home Minister further said, “Today, crime and criminals do not recognise borders, hence law enforcement agencies will have to be strengthened to control them, otherwise uncontrolled crime will make trade difficult.”

 He sought to emphasise that cooperation and coordination would have to be made the key mantra. Justice will have to be made accessible, affordable and accountable, he said.

He said India’s new criminal laws would be able to accommodate the technology of the next 100 years. He said once the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam were fully implemented, India’s criminal justice system would become the most advanced criminal justice system in the world.

President Droupadi Murmu presided over the valedictory ceremony. Justice Surya Kant, Union Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal, Attorney General R Venkataramani, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Commonwealth Legal Education Association Chairman S Shivakumar and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

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