Interpol issued highest ever 100 Red Notices last year on India's request: CBI

NEW DELHI: Countering the perception that India's requests for action against fugitives get entangled in red tape or go unheeded, CBI chief Praveen Sood announced that the Interpol had issued a record 100 Red Notices last year, the highest ever, on India's request. This came even as the Union home secretary Govind Mohan asserted the need for investigation abroad in the wake of "international dispersal of crime and criminals".

At the 10th Interpol liaison conference, hosted by CBI in Delhi on Thursday, Sood said that while 29 wanted criminals were brought back to India in 2023, 19 had been extradited so far in 2024. He also informed that the Global Operation Centre of the agency had handled 17,368 international assistance requests in 2023. Inaugurating the event, Mohan asserted that the spectre of transnational crime and organised crimes necessitates real-time international police cooperation. "Prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of crime are increasingly reliant on digital evidence and foreign-located evidence. New age crimes, encompassing cyber-enabled financial crimes, online radicalisation, and transnational organised crime networks, are not confined by borders.

In an increasingly interconnected world, the significance of international police cooperation cannot be overstated," he said.

Mohan stressed that safe havens for crime, proceeds of crime, and terrorism anywhere in the world pose a grave threat to every country.

The CBI director informed that the agency's academy had joined the Interpol Global Academy Network in August 2023 for enhancing police capacity building, and India joined the International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database of Interpol, providing a critical tool for the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation., he added.


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