The Linkage between organized crime groups and terrorist groups have strengthen criminal activities like drug trafficking, smuggling of gold, arms and commodities, kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, fake currency. Organized crime has become a global challenges it has an effect on all the countries involved in this business of supply and demand. Indian terrorist groups has the support of external forces especially who provide them fund in return of drug trafficking, the north –east states and Kashmir this is very common, in fact north east has a parallel government. There are many gangs who conduct this business and Mumbai is the main target being the financial capital and has the biggest port in India, most of the smuggling business is carried out through sea and many terrorist in the past have entered India through sea routes as it is difficult to identify and fake identity card is not recognised. The Indian government has no agencies so strong to tackle this issue only, lac...

The symbiotic link between organised crime, terrorist organisations and Asian governments

In the contemporary world of technological advancement and industrial revolution, white-collar crime is a ubiquitous phenomenon and thus transmits various threats towards the modern civilizations. Diverse types of elite class-generated socioeconomic felonies though do not trigger any personal physical injury but remarkably impair the economic fabric of the people of South Asian regions disintegrating their stock markets, public interest and government economy. Consequently money laundering, bribery, falsifying company accounts, tax evasion, intellectual property theft, human trafficking, medicine contamination, financial embezzlement and forgery have taken epidemic form in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal. To this context, this research is an attempt to make critical study on the diversified modes of commission of white-collar crime and its impacts on socioeconomic values and orders of the South Asian countries. The paper further aims to analyse the relevant legal regime of the aforesaid countries dealing with such crimes within their territories. The study also examines various causes of white-collar crime taking place within these neighbouring countries. It lastly imparts some possible recommendations to safeguard their interest from the curse of white-collar crimes.

White collar criminality is causing a potential threat to socioeconomic life of each and every country in the world. It is distinct from traditional crimes and therefore demands different treatment. In India, white collar crimes include bank frauds, blackmail, bribery, computer fraud, counterfeiting, environmental schemes, racketeering, embezzlement, money laundering, tax evasion, telemarketing fraud, weight and measures etc. To combat the menace causing by this form of criminality, the Indian government has enacted several laws from time to time. However, despite having plethora of laws on white collar criminality the pertinent question that still exists is whether these laws are implementing effectively in India. This question has prompted the authors to make critical analysis on the working of laws dealing with white collar criminality by studying two important surveys from 2014-2017. Lastly, some valuable suggestions are also put forward hoping to contribute in effective implementation of such laws.

There’s a rapid increase in the crime rate in our Indian economy. These crimes are caused due to the unpunished offenders . The problem of crime has been a relentless menace to society. From petty theft to robbery with violence, crime continues to be a migraine to the government of the day. the increase in crime rates over many countries is minatory, and testament of the myriad of challenges that face society. the necessity to beat the bulk of those issues has led many government into seeking solutions to a haul of that they do not understand the causes. The increased crime rate discourages the people to accumulate their assets which in turn retards the economic activity and inability to promote development. The unemployment is also one of the main reasons for the increasing crime in India. Due to the jobless rate the people tend to commit the crimes to earn to make the ends meet. Inequality and violent crime also causes crimes. Crime rates and inequality are positively correlated w...