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Crime on the Airlines.Important and serious cases in Union Territories,particularly those by pr<strong>of</strong>essional criminals.Serious cases <strong>of</strong> fraud, cheating andembezzlement relating to Public Joint StockCompanies.Other cases <strong>of</strong> a serious nature, when committedby organised gangs or pr<strong>of</strong>essional criminals,or cases having ramifications in several States,including Union Territories, serious cases <strong>of</strong>spurious drugs, important cases <strong>of</strong> kidnapping<strong>of</strong> children by pr<strong>of</strong>essional interstate gangs,etc. These cases will be taken up only at therequest <strong>of</strong> or with the concurrence <strong>of</strong> the StateGovernments /Union Territories Administrationsconcerned.Prosecution <strong>of</strong> cases investigated by thisDivision.hijackings, crimes committed by extremists, violation<strong>of</strong> Official Secrets Act, large scale Banks andInsurance Frauds, etc. and others complicated caseslike Bhagalpur Blinding, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, etc.Since early 1980s, Constitutional Courts also startedreferring cases to CBI for enquiry/investigation onthe basis <strong>of</strong> petitions filed by the aggrieved persons incases <strong>of</strong> murders, dowry deaths, rape, etc. In view <strong>of</strong>these developments, it was decided in 1987 to havetwo <strong>Investigation</strong> Divisions in CBI, namely, Anti-Corruption Division and Special Crimes Division,the latter dealing with cases <strong>of</strong> conventional crimes as1.7 CBI was further strengthened by addition<strong>of</strong> an Economic Offences Wing by a Government <strong>of</strong>India Resolution dated February 2, 1964. At thistime, CBI had two <strong>Investigation</strong> Wings: one calledthe General Offences Wing, which dealt with cases<strong>of</strong> bribery and corruption involving employees <strong>of</strong><strong>Central</strong> Government/PSUs and the other EconomicOffences Wing, which dealt with cases <strong>of</strong> violation <strong>of</strong>fiscal laws.1.8 In September 1964, a Food Offences Wingwas formed to collect intelligence regarding hoarding,black marketing, smuggling and pr<strong>of</strong>iteering infoodgrains and take up such cases having interstateramifications in view <strong>of</strong> the situation prevailing at thattime. It was merged in the Economic Offences Wingin 1968.1.9 Over a period <strong>of</strong> time, some <strong>of</strong> the workoriginally allotted to the CBI was transferred to otherorganisations. Part <strong>of</strong> the work relating to CrimeRecords and Statistics Division was transferred toNational Crime Records <strong>Bureau</strong> (NCRB) and thatrelating to Research Division was transferred to <strong>Bureau</strong><strong>of</strong> Police Research & Development (BPR&D).1.10 With the passage <strong>of</strong> time, requests were madeby various quarters for CBI to take up investigation evenin conventional crimes like assassinations, kidnappings,DSPE Act, XXV <strong>of</strong> 19466 Annual Report 2011 | <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Bureau</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Investigation</strong>
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