Organized Crimes in India

Organised crime involves complex and highly centralised enterprises set up for the purpose of engaging in illegal activities. Such organisations engage in offences such as cargo theft, fraud, robbery, kidnapping, etc.

Organised crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralised enterprises run by criminals.

Types of Organised Crimes

• Smuggling
• Terrorism & Narco-Terrorism
• Money Laundering & Hawala
• Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking
• Contract Killings
• Kidnapping for Ransom
• Illegal Immigration, etc.

Linkages between Terrorists and Organised Crime

• Because of poor leadership and a lack of effective law and order, organised crime and terrorism thrive in a nation.
• Terrorists can benefit from organized crime as a source of financing or logistical support through the illicit trafficking of arms, persons, drugs, artifacts, and cultural property.
• But terrorist groups can also benefit from the illicit trade in natural resources and wildlife, the abuse of legitimate commercial enterprise, donations, and proceeds of criminal activity, including kidnapping for ransom, extortion, and bank robbery, as well as piracy.
• Internationally organised crime aims to use lawful activity for their illegal ends. They are getting increasingly inventive in their methods of making money.
• The crimes committed by organised crime groups become more and more international as they join ever-larger, more intricate networks that cover the entire planet.

Way Forward

• The government should introduce hi-tech software to track organised crime groups.
• Technology, manpower, and intelligence must work together to tackle organised crime in India, and agencies should be formed for this matter as it will also help in fight against terrorism.
• Organised crime is not only a national-level threat but has emerged as an international threat, where all the countries must come together and globally respond to it.