Morocco, India agree to strengthen anti-terror cooperation

Union MoS Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and Morocco's Justice Minister Mohamed Aujjar exchange the signed document of an agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between India and Morocco in New Delhi, on Nov 12, 2018.

Rabat,  India and Morocco signed on Monday an agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance to fight crimes and terrorism, the Moroccan official MAP news agency reported.

According to the report, the agreement was inked in New Delhi by Morocco’s Minister of Justice Mohamed Aujjar and Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju.

The agreement aims to cement bilateral cooperation, enhance effectiveness and provide a broad legal framework for prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimes as well as in tracing, restraint and confiscation of funds meant to finance terrorist acts, the same source said.