The petitions challenges the changes to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on various grounds, including that these infringed upon fundamental rights of citizens and empowered agencies to declare persons a terrorist.
Addressing the Rajya Sabha on UAPA, Shah said it is important to identify terrorists and not just organisations and said that there will be a four-stage scrutiny before a terrorist tag is put up.
Responding to a debate on a bill which amends the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in Lok Sabha, Amit Shah asserted that there are enough safeguards to ensure that the act is not misused and will only be used only to root out terrorism. He also said that provision in UAPA (amendment) bill to designate a person suspected to have terror links as terrorist is necessary to root out terror.
The blame game came in the aftermath of the Lok Sabha passing the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act Bill. UAPA Amendment Bill seeks to streamline the process of confiscating terrorists' property and designate individuals as terrorists along with groups.
The court clarified that specific reasons that really necessitate the extended remand of the accused did not form part of the report, which is the basic requirement for it.
There should be no automatic denial of bail to a person accused of being involved in terror acts, the Law Commission has cautioned indicating that evidence should be given priority.
The government on Tuesday bannned controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's organisation IRF for five years with immediate effect.
New Delhi: In the wake of four Mumbai youth joining ISIS, the Central government has notified the militant outfit – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as a banned terrorist organization under the Unlawful Activities
Kolkata: The CID today lodged cases under different sections of UAPA against the accused in the October.2 Burdwan blast, apart from the charge of waging war against the country which was slapped earlier under IPC.West
New Delhi: MDMK General Secretary Vaiko was Wednesday allowed to present his arguments before a special tribunal constituted by the Delhi High Court to look into the ban on LTTE as an “unlawful organization”. The
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