{"id":4306,"date":"2025-10-02T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:02:32","slug":"mutual-legal-assistance-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mutual-legal-assistance-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the central government invoked the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with Singapore over the singer&#8217;s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a mechanism whereby <\/span><b>countries cooperate with one another<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to provide and obtain formal assistance in prevention, suppression, <\/span><b>investigation and prosecution of crime.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to ensure that <\/span><b>the criminals do not escape or sabotage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the due process of law for want of evidence available in different countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India provides mutual legal assistance in criminal matters through Bilateral Treaties\/Agreements, <\/span><b>Multilateral Treaties\/Agreements or International Conventions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or on the basis of assurance of reciprocity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) in criminal matters are the bilateral treaties entered between the countries for providing international cooperation and assistance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has entered into Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties <\/span><b>with more than 45 countries.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Nodal Ministry:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Common forms of assistance provided to or sought by India are as follows:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identifying and locating persons and objects;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking evidence and obtaining statements; assisting in the availability of person in custody or others to give evidence or assist in investigations or appear as a witness;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effecting service of judicial documents;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Executing searches and seizures;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providing information, documents, records and other evidentiary items;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking measures to identify, locate, attach, freeze, restrain, confiscate or forfeit the proceeds and [7]instrumentalities of crime;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/zubeen-garg-death-probe-assam-cm-centre-mlat-singapore\/article70112504.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty aims to ensure that the criminals do not escape or sabotage the due process of law for want of evidence available in different countries. 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