Tag: Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act

On bail plea, agency counters Supreme Court remark that 2 UAPA accused were but ‘young boys’. A remark from the Supreme Court on Wednesday that two Kerala youths accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for Maoist links are but “young boys” saw the National Investigation Agency (NIA) respond ...

Says U.P. CM diverting attention from misgovernance The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday dared the Central government to declare the Taliban a terrorist organisation and put it on the list of outfits banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).The Hyderabad MP also took on ...

SRINAGAR: Amid murmurs of an impending ban on both factions of the secessionist Hurriyat Conference, ailing patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani's kin appeared to shield themselves from the administration's glare by hurriedly removing a Tehreek-e-Hurriyat signboard from the three-storey annexe of their palatial family residence in Srinagar's Hyderpora neighbourhood. ...

NEW DELHI Indian social activist and Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, 84, accused of involvement in violent incidents in 2018, died in custody on Monday while awaiting a bail hearing on medical grounds, medical staff told the Bombay High Court.Swamy was arrested in Ranchi, Jharkhand last October under India’s stringent Unlawful ...

Bashir Ahmad Baba, a 44-year old from Rainawari in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, returned home on June 23, eleven years after the Gujarat Police arrested him on terror charges, The Indian Express reported on Thursday. He was booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.On June 19, a ...

The Delhi High Court bail order for Asif Tanha, Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, in which the court said crimes that could be dealt with ordinary criminal laws cannot be brought under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, is a welcome effort to prevent civil liberties from being swallowed up ...

They planned to attack individuals whom they considered ‘kafirs’ (infidels), says agency. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against 11 “al-Qaeda members” from Kerala and West Bengal. It alleged that they were planning to attack among others, an India-based Bangladeshi blogger “for his views ...

Chief of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen Syed Sallahudin and founders of Indian Mujahideen outfit Bhatkal brothers are among the 18 people who have been designated as ”terrorists” under the anti-terror law, an official spokesperson said here on Tuesday. The hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999 — Abdul ...

A journalist from Kerala was accused of sedition and various offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, (UAPA) and arrested on the way to Hathras on October 7. In recent years, sedition and UAPA have been weaponised and used routinely against critics of various ruling governments. Data from ...

SRINAGAR: The national investigation agency (NIA) on Saturday ordered attaching of a property of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Irshad Ahmed Reshi, who was arrested by the agency in connection with an attack on a CRPF Group Centre in south Kashmir in 2017. The property, which is a house, is in ...