After amendment NIA set to test waters in Afghanistan
New Delhi, Sep 07: A team of the National Investigation Agency will travel to Afghanistan to probe the Kabul Gurudwara attack case.
On March 25, terrorists stormed into the Gurdwara in Shor Bazar area in Kabul and fired indiscriminately. 27 devotees were killed in the attack, while several others were injured. In the attack an Indian citizen, Tian Singh was also killed.
The
attack
was
claimed
by
the
Islamic
State
Khorasan.
The
NIA
had
said
that
as
per
the
preliminary
investigation,
one
Muhsin
from
Kasargod
in
Kerala
is
suspected
to
be
involved
in
the
attack.
The
case
was
registered
under
the
provisions
of
Section
6(8)
of
the
NIA
act.
This
is
the
first
case
in
which
NIA
has
registered
outside
the
country.
As per the amendment, the NIA can probe terror cases which are committed at any place outside India against Indian citizens or those cases that affect the interest of India.
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It may be recalled that in June 2019, an amendment was made to Schedule 4 of the UAPA which allowed the NIA to designate an individual suspected to have terrorist links as a terrorist. Currently, only organisations are designated as terrorist organisations.
The NIA came into existence in 2009 following the Mumbai 26/11 attack. The proposed amendments are under consideration since 2017. The same was proposed to give the agency more teeth and also a wider scope in the wake of fresh challenges emerging.