Top police officers of six State governments, Central investigating and intelligence agencies have been in a meeting with the Union Home Secretary on Thursday to discuss possible ways to block funding to Naxal operatives.
Agencies like the Enforcement Directorate will register more money laundering cases in various affected States, as decided.
Apart from the senior functionaries of the National Investigation Agency, the ED and the Intelligence Bureau Director, police chiefs of Odisha, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal were present at the review-cum-coordination meeting.
While the agencies gave a presentation on the action started against Naxal operatives and the modus operandi adopted by banned outfits to extort funds and launder money, they also deliberated on further possible measures to block the fund supplies.
The Enforcement Directorate has already attached properties worth crores of alleged Naxal leaders operating in the Bihar-Jharkhand belt in the past few months.
The Directorate has decided to register more cases under the Money Laundering Act in other States, based on investigations from police and other agencies.
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