NIA Reports 92% Conviction Rate in 2025, Citing Extraditions and Rapid Case Breakthroughs

A year-end brief highlights cross-border returns, swift arrests in major cases, with new tools boosting investigative capacity.

Overview

Officials said the agency secured a conviction rate exceeding 92% this year, alongside 66 convictions from terrorism and organised-crime prosecutions.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana was extradited from the United States in April and placed in NIA custody to face trial over the 2008 Mumbai attacks plot.
U.S. authorities deported gangster Anmol Bishnoi in November, and the agency said it is pursuing a speedy trial in the conspiracy case against him.
The NIA filed a chargesheet naming seven accused, including LeT and TRF, in the Pahalgam attack and reported nine arrests within weeks in the Red Fort car-blast probe.
Year-end figures list 55 cases registered, 276 arrests, 320 accused chargesheeted, and 12 property attachments, alongside LWE crackdowns, action on trafficking and radical networks, and upgrades such as weapons and organised-crime databases plus cryptocurrency investigation training.