(a) Terrorism
The United Kingdom Terrorism Act, 2000, defines Terrorism as the ‘use of or a threat of action’ designed to influence the Government or to intimidate the public for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.
AFSPA The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act was enacted in 1958 to bring under control what the government of India considered ‘disturbed’ areas. The Act has often faced flak from human rights groups as it gave sweeping powers and immunity to the army in conflict-ridden areas.
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(b) Organised Gangs
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.
Lesser Incidences The last four years have seen an unprecedented improvement in the LWE scenario across the country. An overall 20% reduction in violent incidents (1136 to 908) and 33.8% reduction (397 to 263) in LWE related deaths in 2017 as compared to 2013 has been reported. In comparison to 2016, the year 2017 saw a decline of 13.4% (1048 to 908) in incidents of violence and 5.4% (278 to 263) in resultant deaths. At the same time, the developmental outreach by the Government of India has resulted in an increasingly large number of LWE cadres shunning the path of violence and returning to the mainstream. Chhattisgarh (373 incidents and 130 deaths) remains the worst affected State followed by Jharkhand (251 incidents and 56 deaths), Bihar (99 incidents and 22 deaths), Odisha (81 incidents and 29 deaths) and Maharashtra (69 incidents and 16 deaths). |
(c) Communal Problem
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich said Napoleon Bonaparte. True it might be, but religion has become a justification for mass murders and genocides based on religious faith. Blindness for one faith has bludgeoned the humanity within man. And, man has erased the difference between human and inhuman in the name of his religion. India has seen the communal riots of every kind with the Hindu-Muslim violence in the pre-Partitioned India to Sikh-Muslim riots during partition to anti-Christian and anti-Hindu violence.