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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
Moving the demands for grants for the police, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today said the law was aimed at tackling habitual offenders involved in contract murders, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, gang activities such as robbery, dacoity and other property offences, organised drug smuggling, distillation and manufacture of poisonous liquor, trafficking in women and children or kidnapping for begging or child labour, professional cheating by non-banking financial institutions, organised destruction of public property and manufacture and smuggling of illegal arms. The law would also cover quarry owners and others dealing in explosive substances for illegal purposes; illegal granite or sand quarrying, food adulteration, hoarding and black marketing, smuggling of sandalwood, ivory and antiques, cyber crimes, organised money laundering syndicates, counterfeiting of currency and valuable securities and slum grabbing. According to the police policy note, gangsters, organised criminals indulging in heinous activities, rowdies and violent elements with political patronage and other anti-social elements would come within the purview of the legislation. The Government also proposed to amend the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act, 1998 to make Sections 4 to 7 cognisable. The amendment was being considered to make punishment under Section 4 more stringent and effect some other changes. As none of the offences under the Act was cognisable, the police could not probe the cases without a magistrate's order. The Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1997 was proposed to be amended to enlarge the scope of financial institutions, the meaning of `deposit' and powers of the competent authority.
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