Author: Sanjay Pandey
Publication: Deccan Herald
Date: August 20, 2017
URL:   http://www.deccanherald.com/content/628995/nia-has-checked-terror-funding.html

Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been able to instil a sense of fear among those indulging in ''terror funding''.

Speaking after inaugurating the new building of NIA here, Singh also said that the agency had also helped bring down the incidents of stone pelting in Kashmir. ''Many people, who indulged in terror funding are in its custody,'' he added.

''NIA has emerged as a credible investigating agency....it enjoys freedom in its work and there is no interference in its working,'' the minister said.

Singh said that since its inception in 2009, NIA has worked out 95 % of the 165 cases it investigated and secured a conviction in 94 % cases.

The union minister also said that Naxalite extremism had declined by 40 % and militancy in the North-East had registered a decline of 75 % owing to the NIA.

Singh said that the NIA was trying to trace the source of fake currency in the country.