In a meeting between National Security Advisers of both countries, the Indian side raised the issue of extremist elements in the UK threatening individual officers of the Indian High Commission and urged the British government to take strong action, including deportation or legal prosecution, against these elements.
British NSA Tim Barrow is on an official visit at the invitation of NSA Ajit Doval for the ‘India-UK Strategic Dialogue’.
He is accompanied by a delegation of senior UK government officials. The two sides agreed to enhance cooperation to address violent extremism and radicalism. There could be no justification for extremism and radicalisation in a democracy, sources said, citing the two sides. Both sides also agreed to work closely on counter-terrorism, counter-terror financing, use of internet for terrorism, illicit drug trafficking and counter-radicalisation.