Operation 'MEGHA CHAKRA' Flashcards
ABOUT
CBI-led global operations against child online sex exploitation.
internationally coordinated operation for crackdowns on online circulation of CHILD SEX ABUSE MATERIAL (CSAM)
THE CBI acted upon inputs from the Singapore based crime against children (CAC) unit of INTERPOL, which had received the inputs from the New Zealand Police.
INTERPOL
The International Criminal Police Organization commonly known as Interpol. is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. Headquartered in Lyon, France, it is the world’s largest international police organization, with seven regional bureaus worldwide and a National Central Bureau in all 195 member states
Formed 7 September 1923
Headquarters Lyon, France
Agency executives
Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, President
Sarka Havrankova, Garba Baba Umar, Valdecy Urquisa, Vice Presidents
Jürgen Stock, Secretary General
ABOUT CBI
CBI provides assistance to the CVC( CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION) and Lokpal.
functions under the superintendence of the dept. of personnel, ministry of personnel, pensions and public greivances
Also the nodal police agency in INDIA which coordinates investigation on behalf of INTERPOL in INDIA.
CONVICTION RATE– 65-70%
The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
ministry of the Government of India in personnel matters specially issues concerning recruitment, training, career development, staff welfare as well as the post-retirement dispensation.
The ministry is also concerned with the process of responsive people-oriented modern administration. Allocation of Business Rules defines the work allotted for the ministry.
Usually, though not always, the ministry is headed by the prime minister, with a minister of state reporting to him.
Formed 1 August 1970
Minister responsible-
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India and Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Deputy Minister responsible
Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
HISTORY OF CBI
during the period of world war II , a SPECIAL POLICE ESTABLISHMENT was constituted for corruption and bribery
Enacting the DELHI Special Police Establishment (DSPE) act, 1946.
on the recommendation of the SANTHANAM committee on the prevention of Corruption, the CBI was eastablished by a resolution from the ministry of home affairs in 1963on 1st april..
Later it was transferred to the ministry of personnel and now it enjoys the status of an attached office.
Corruption PERCEPTION INDEX 2021
Recently, the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2021 was released by Transparency International.
Overall, the CPI shows that control of corruption has stagnated or worsened in 86% of countries over the last decade.
Transparency International
It is an international non -governmental organisation founded in 1993 based in Berlin, Germany
Its non-profit purpose is to take action to combat global Corruption with civil societal anti-corruption measures and to prevent criminal activities arising from corruption.
Its most notable publications include the Global Corruption Barometer and the Corruption Perception Index.
RANKS
The Index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople.
It relies on 13 independent data sources and uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
More than two-thirds of countries (68%) score below 50 and the average global score remains static at 43. Since 2012, 25 countries significantly improved their scores, but in the same period 23 countries significantly declined.
This year, the top countries are Denmark, Finland and New Zealand, each with a score of 88. Norway (85), Singapore (85), Sweden (85), Switzerland (84), the Netherlands (82), Luxembourg (81) and Germany (80) complete the top 10.
South Sudan (11), Syria (13) and Somalia (13) remain at the bottom of the index
India’s Performance:
India ranked 85 among 180 countries in the current index (86 in 2020 and 80 in 2019). Transparency International gave India a CPI score of 40.
Except Bhutan, all of India’s neighbours are ranked below it. Pakistan dropped 16 spots in the index and was ranked at 140.
CHAIRPERSON OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
Delia Ferreira Rubio
DIRECTOR OF CBI
DIRECTOR of CBI had been provided security of 2 year tenure by the CVC act, 2003.
in 2014, the LOKPAL act provided a committee for appointment of CBI director, headed by PRIME MINISTER, LEADER OF THE SINGLE LARGEST OPPOSITION PARTY, CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA/ SUPREME COURT JUDGE.
CBI is India’s first law enforcement agency to set up a cyber crime unit.
CBI will host the 90th INTERPOL general assembly in OCTOBER 2022.
CURRENT DIRECTOR OF CBI- SUBODH KUMAR JAISWAL.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY RULES IN INDIA
THE POCSO act, 2019 defines child porography as any’ visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a child which includes a photograph, video, digital or computer-generated image indistinguishable from the actual child.
Protection of Children from Sexually offences act, 2019: penalises
1. storage of pornographic materials for commercial purposes with imprisonment upto 5 yrs , or a fine, or both.
2. failure to destroy, or delete, or report pornographich material involving a child.
3. transmitting, displaying , distributing such material except for the purposes of repoting it.
THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AMENDMENT ACT, 2008: SECTION 67B punishes child pornography, child grooming or exploitation.
similar operation started by CBI in 2021
OPERATION CARBON.
