No country can be safe without being in coordination with other countries: Amit Shah

Tribune News Service

Satya Prakash

New Delhi, February 4

Emphasising that no country can be safe without being in coordination with other countries, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said geographical borders should not be an obstruction, but a meeting point for law.

Addressing the valedictory session of the ‘Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) — Commonwealth Attorneys and Solicitors General Conference (CASGC) 2024’ here, Shah said, “Now, geographical boundaries are important neither for trade nor for crime. Trade and crime both are becoming borderless and at such times, to deal with trade disputes and crime in a borderless manner, we will have to start some new system and tradition.”

He said, “Today, no one can deny geographical borders and barriers even in today's interconnected world. But, both barriers and borders have been removed from trade, commerce, communication and crime…connection from small cyber fraud to global organised crime is now becoming very deep. From local disputes to cross-border disputes, the connection is becoming deeper. The entire process from small theft to hacking the banking system and data is complete and the connection of international terrorism with local crime is also becoming deeper.”

The Home Minister said, “Today, crime and criminals do not recognise borders, hence law-enforcement agencies will have to be strengthened to control them, otherwise uncontrolled crime will make trade difficult.”

He sought to emphasise that cooperation and coordination will have to be made the key mantra for justice delivery. Justice will have to be made accessible, affordable and accountable, he added.

President Droupadi Murmu presided over the valedictory ceremony of CAGSC'24. Supreme Court Judge Suryakant, Union Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal, Attorney General R Venkataramani, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Commonwealth Legal Education Association Chairman S Shivakumar and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

Shah said a lot of work has been done on issues such as exchange rate fluctuations, trade protection treaties, issues related to international standards and regulation complaints and contract and dispute resolution and there were still many issues where collaborative work was needed to control crime.

Noting that there should be no limit of geographical border for law, instead, geographical border should be a meeting point for law, he said determining such a meeting point can be done through conferences like CAGSC'24 and only then the laws of all the countries will reciprocate each other and justice delivery will be possible.

No country can remain safe without being in coordination with the laws of other countries, Shah said.

He said India’s new criminal laws would be able to accommodate the technology of the next 100 years. He said once Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam - were fully implemented, India's criminal justice system would become the most advanced criminal justice system in the world.

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