Similarly, any country can make an extradition request to India. The legal basis for Extradition with States with whom India does not have an Extradition Treaty ("non-Treaty States”) is provided by Section 3(4) of the Indian Extradition Act, 1962.

March 2021 Largest Top-5 arms exporters: USA Russia France Germany China. World's Largest arms importer: 1) Saudi 2) India. India's arm imports declined by 33% between 2011-2020 because of a) Atma-Nirbhar b) Complex procurement system/red-tapism.

DRDO Young Scientists Labs for only under 35 scientists for working on AI, Quantum, etc in 5 cities.

State governments under section 6 of Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 provide consent to CBI. In Dorji vs CBI, Supreme Court clarified that State government’s withdrawal should not be allowed to stall a pending case.

Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) has raised concerns over non-filling of vacancies in the Central Bureau of Investigation

Recommendations of PSC:

Terms of deputation to the CBI be made more rewarding in order to retain capable officers and to attract best officers

simplify recruitment rules to overcome the procedural bottlenecks.

The CBI and the government should expedite approvals for setting up the International Centre of Excellence in Investigation (ICEI-CBI) at the CBI Academy in Ghaziabad

In 1978, the L P Singh committee recommended enactment of a “comprehensive central legislation to remove the deficiency of not having a central investigative agency with a self-sufficient statutory charter of duties and functions”. z¾ The Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2007) also suggested that “a new law should be enacted to govern the working of the CBI”.

NIA is functioning as the Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency in India.

Santhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption (1962– 64) recommended CVC(1964) and CBI(1963)

Defence Acquisition Council was formed on recommendations of GoM Report - Reforming the National Security System