India has organized crime syndicates like the mafia gangs of Mumbai whose sole aim is to amass wealth by spreading terror posing a threat to internal security. Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act of 1999 defines organized crime as any continuing unlawful activity by an individual, singly or jointly, either as a member of an organised crime syndicate or on behalf of such syndicate, by use of violence or threat of violence or intimidation or coercion, or other unlawful means, with the objective of gaining pecuniary benefits, or gaining undue economic or other advantage for himself or any other person or promoting insurgency. These gangs spread not only terror and panic among the people through contract killings, extortions kidnapping for ransom but also involve themselves in drug smuggling, gun running, money laundering and occasionally providing logistic support to the terrorists which pose a grave danger to peace and internal security in India.
