Amit Shah reviews security situation, discusses threats from global terror groups at high-level meet

The home minister conducted a high-level security meeting with India's intelligence apparatus today discussing movement of foreign terrorists, terror financing, and emerging security challenges

|Jan 03, 2022, 21:34:49 IST

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the country's prevailing security situation and emerging challenges that include threats from global terror organisations, illicit use of cyberspace and "movement of foreign terrorist fighters".

This was the first such high-level meeting, chaired by Shah and attended by the top brass of the country's security and intelligence apparatus, in the new year.

"Hon'ble Union home minister conducted a high-level security meeting today to review the prevailing threat scenario in the country and the emerging security challenges," an official statement said.

He highlighted the continued threats of terrorism and global terror groups, terror financing, narco-terrorism, organised crime-terror nexus, illicit use of cyberspace, movement of foreign terrorist fighters, it said

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