{"id":9032,"date":"2022-10-28T03:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:21:05","slug":"national-investigation-agency-nia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-investigation-agency-nia\/","title":{"rendered":"National Investigation Agency (NIA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Investigation Agency (NIA):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>National Investigation Agency (NIA) is the\u00a0Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent agency:<\/strong>Union Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Establishment:<\/strong>NIA was created after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks with the enactment of the National Investigation Agency Act 2008.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jurisdiction:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The agency is empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the states.<\/li>\n<li>A State Government may request the Central Government to hand over the investigation of a case to the NIA, provided the case has been registered for the offences as contained in the schedule to the NIA Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>NIA special courts:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Various Special Courts have been notified by the Govt. of India for trial of the cases arising out of offences committed in various states of the Union.<\/li>\n<li>These are presided over by a judge appointed by the Central Government on the recommendation of the Chief Justice of the High Court with jurisdiction in that region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Offices:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is headquartered in\u00a0<strong>Delhi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Branches:<\/strong>\u00a0Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Kolkata, Raipur, Jammu, Chandigarh, Ranchi, Chennai and Imphal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=NIA-agency-to-have-offices-in-all-states-by-2024%2c-says-Home-Minister-Amit-Shah&amp;id=449974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Investigation Agency (NIA) is the Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}