BLUE CORNER NOTICE
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to issue a Blue Corner notice against absconding Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna.
Prajwal fled to Germany on a diplomatic passport after nearly 3,000 videos showing him allegedly sexually abusing party workers and other women went viral on April 28.
ABOUT NOTICES
It issues 8 type of notices (7 of which are colour-coded) which are in the form of alert/requests allowing police in member countries to share critical crime-related information.
- Red Notice
- To seek the location and arrest of a person wanted by a judicial jurisdiction or an international tribunal with a view to his/her extradition.
- It is the “closest instrument to an international arrest warrant”.
- Blue Notice
- To locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal investigation.
- Green Notice
- To warn about a person’s criminal activities if that person is considered to be a possible threat to public safety.
- Yellow Notice
- To help locate missing persons, often minors, or to help identify persons who are unable to identify themselves.
- Black Notice
- To seek information on unidentified bodies.
- Orange Notice
- To warn of an event, a person, an object or a process representing an imminent threat and danger to persons or property.
- Purple Notice
- To provide information on modus operandi, procedures, objects, devices or hiding places used by criminals.
- Interpol-UNSC Special Notice
- To inform interpol’s members that an individual or an entity is subject to UN sanctions.
ARE THESE NOTICES BINDING?
All Interpol’s notices are completely discretionary, i.e. interpol itself cannot compel law enforcement authorities to act on a particular notice.
Very often, actual action on the notices is predicated on the relations between the two countries.
Given India’s amicable relations with Germany, where Prajwal has fled to, it will be fair to expect that indian and German law enforcement will fruitfully cooperate to resolve the case.
ABOUT INTERPOL
- It is an international organization facilitating international police cooperation against terrorism, trafficking, & other crime.
- Governance: All decisions regarding the activities of INTERPOL are made by the General Assembly which is it’s supreme governing body which meets annually.
- Status: it is ‘NOT’ a unit or part of united nation system. It is an independent international organization.
- HQ: Lyon in
- Founded in:
- It has a National Central Bureau (NCB) in each member country, which is the central point of contact for both the general secretariat and the other NCBs around the world. For India, NCB is the cbi
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