Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
Indian law to prevent unlawful activities
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Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act is an Indian law aimed at prevention of unlawful activities associations in India. Its main objective was to make powers available for dealing with activities directed against the integrity and sovereignty of India. The most recent amendment of the law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, 2019 has made it possible for the Union Government to designate individuals as terrorists without following any formal judicial process. UAPA is also known as the Anti-terror law.
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Canada-based pro-Khalistan Gill designated ‘terrorist’ under UAPAIndiaTimes - Published | |
NIA's plea dismissed by SC, Teltumbde may be freed todayThe Supreme Court on Friday rejected the NIA's plea for cancellation of bail granted to UAPA accused Anand Teltumbde, who allegedly had a nexus with the banned CPI-Maoist organisation, but clarified..IndiaTimes - Published | |
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Delhi HC's Justice Sharma to head UAPA tribunal on PFI banAccording to an office memorandum issued by the Department of Justice in the Law Ministry, Justice Sharma's time as head of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal will count as "actual service"...IndiaTimes - Published | |
Delhi Police registers two more PFI members under UAPAThis is the second case registered under the UAPA against the PFI members in the Delhi.DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes | |
Centre designates 7 men as ‘individual’ terrorists under UAPAThe Union home ministry on Tuesday declared seven Pakistan-based terrorists — associated with Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashker e Taiba affiliate The Resistance Front and Tahreek e Mujahideen — as..IndiaTimes - Published | |
'Exercise powers of UAPA against PFI, its affiliates': Centre to states, UTsThe Centre has banned PFI and its affiliates for five years under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.DNA - Published | |
PFI banned for 5 years: UAPA decoded; list of all outfits banned under the stringent law and over 'unlawful association'Here is a look at the other organisations banned by the Indian government under the stringent UAPA law and 'unlawful associations':DNA - Published | |
Centre bans PFI for 5 years under anti-terror law UAPA after mega NIA crackdown, links with SIMI, ISIS and JMB foundThis comes a day after the group, often being linked to radical Islam, faced a second round of NIA crackdown in which 170 were detained or arrested.DNA - Published | |
PFI unleashed 'guerrilla strike' during hartal: Kerala CMMasked supporters of PFI unleashed a "planned violent guerrilla strike" during Friday's statewide protest called by the outfit, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday. An NIA special..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan granted bail by SC: Know why he was booked under UAPA ActKerala journalist Siddique Kappan was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Friday, who cited Right to Freedom of Speech as the reason for his release.DNA - Published | |
Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, incarcerated in UP for 2 years, gets bailThe Uttar Pradesh government had submitted in the court that the people arrested under UAPA wanted to incite riots.DNA - Published | |
Delhi Police invoke UAPA against several gangsters including Sidhu Moosewala murder accused Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy BrarThis is for the first time in Delhi that several gangsters have been booked under the stringent law.DNA - Published | CPM accused of double standards on controversial UAPA law by rights activistsIndiaTimes - Published |
Conviction rate in cases registered by Centre under UAPA 94.17%: MoS Home RaiIndiaTimes - Published | 2017 Chhattisgarh Maoists ambush: Case has most number of accused under UAPA, says activistIndiaTimes - Published |
Udaipur murder: Accused aimed to spread terror, booked under UAPARajasthan CM said that the murder was meant to spread terror and information has also surfaced that the killers have contacts abroad.DNA - Published | Smuggling gold is not a terrorist act under UAPA: Delhi High CourtThe court asked the appellants to surrender their passports, not leave the country without prior permission of the trial court.DNA - Published |
Jammu and Kashmir: 'Anti-national' slogans supporting Yasin Malik heard, 10 booked under UAPA10 people have been arrested under UAPA in J&K's Srinagar for raising slogans against the arrest and sentencing of separatist leader Yasin Malik.DNA - Published | Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik sentenced to life imprisonment in terror funding caseAn NIA special court on Wednesday sentenced Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to life imprisonment. He had earlier pleaded guilty to all charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful..IndiaTimes - Published |
'Anti-CAA protests against unjust law, not against Sovereign': Umar Khalid on 2020 Delhi riots caseUmar Khalid, who was arrested under UAPA in connection with the Delhi Riots 2022 case, was presented in front of the Delhi High Court on Monday.DNA - Published | Sedition law: Immediate relief unlikely for terror, Naxalism accusedThe SC's interim order on Section 124A may not bring relief to those accused or chargesheeted in cases relating to terrorism or the urban Naxal network, investigated either by NIA or other agencies...IndiaTimes - Published |
Yasin Malik pleads guilty before Delhi court in case related to terrorismSeparatist leader Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), before a Delhi court in a case..IndiaTimes - Published | UAPA tribunal confirms Centre's decision declaring Zakir Naik's IRF as unlawfulIndiaTimes - Published |
Sedition cases fell to 73 in 2020 from 93 in 2019; UAPA cases too dipped by 35%IndiaTimes - Published | Delhi court to try Yasin Malik under UAPAIndiaTimes - Published |
NIA files ‘UAPA case’ against Dawood and D-CompanyIndiaTimes - Published | Dawood Ibrahim, others charged by National Investigation Agency under UAPAThe agency filed the case based on a recent order received from the Ministry of Home Affairs to register a case against Dawood.DNA - Published |
Jammu and Kashmir IED seizure case: NIA files chargesheet against 3Nadeem Ul Haq, Talib Ur Rehman of Ramban and Nadeem Ayoub Rather of Shopian have been named in the chargesheet filed under sections of the IPC, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the..IndiaTimes - Published | 4,690 arrested under UAPA, 149 convicted: Government tells Rajya SabhaUnion minister of state for home Nityanand Rai said in Rajya Sabha that 1,421 people were arrested in 2018 under the UAPA, 1,948 in 2019 and 1,321 in 2020. A total of 35 people were convicted in 2018,..IndiaTimes - Published |
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta to lead Centre's legal team to defend UAPA ban in IRFThe ministry of home affairs also nominated six senior central government counsel - Sachin Datta, Amit Mahajan, Rajat Nair, Kanu Agrawal, Jay Prakash and Dhruv Pandey - to appear before the UAP..IndiaTimes - Published | Centre: 57% of those held under UAPA in 2018-20 below 30 yearsIndiaTimes - Published |
Undertrial can’t be detained indefinitely, says Supreme CourtTaking up the case of a Maoist leader charged under the tough UAPA law, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that an undertrial cannot be indefinitely detained in prison if there is a delay in..IndiaTimes - Published | Over 1,300 arrested under UAPA in 2020, lowest in four years: CentreIndiaTimes - Published |
Review UAPA cases against 102 people: Biplab to DGPIndiaTimes - Published | Centre may ban all Hurriyat factions for financing terrorCentre may soon ban Hurriyat Conference as an “unlawful organisation’ under the UAPA, citing the alleged involvement of its constituents and leaders in terror financing in Jammu & Kashmir. Sources..IndiaTimes - Published |
Supreme Court relief for three booked under UAPA by TripuraA bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant issued notices to the Centre and the Tripura government on the joint petition filed by the three after hearing advocate..IndiaTimes - Published | Activists move Supreme Court challenging UAPA against lawyers by TripuraIndiaTimes - Published |
Rahul Gandhi flays use of UAPA in TripuraIndiaTimes - Published | HC erred, says SC, junks discharge of UAPA accusedIndiaTimes - Published |
Supreme Court quashes HC order discharging accused for alleged offences of sedition and UAPAIndiaTimes - Published | Both Hurriyat factions may be banned under UAPA: OfficialsIndiaTimes - Published |
Both factions of Hurriyat Conference likely to be banned under UAPAA ban under the stringent UAPA may be imposed on both factions of the secessionist conglomerate Hurriyat Conference, officials said. They said a recent probe into the granting of MBBS seats to Kashmiri..IndiaTimes - Published | Over 3,000 people arrested under UAPA between 2017 and 2019: GovtIndiaTimes - Published |
HC pulls up NIA judge for not hearing bail plea for 6 months, sets dateA delay of six months in hearing the bail plea of a 60-year-old man jailed under the stringent UAPA law has prompted the Delhi high court to fix a date for the special judge to hear it. A bench of..IndiaTimes - Published | Act against those responsible for framing Stan: Opposition to PresidentA day after Father Stan Swamy’s death in custody, 10 opposition leaders wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind expressing deep anguish and outrage and demanded his immediate intervention. Referring to..IndiaTimes - Published |
UP to set up panel to review NSA, UAPA casesIndiaTimes - Published | Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi acquitted by special NIA court in last UAPA caseNearly 19 months after being arrested for allegedly inciting violence during anti-CAA agitation, Akhil Gogoi walked out of judicial custody Thursday.DNA - Published |
Akhil Gogoi walks free as court acquits him in last UAPA caseNearly 19 months after being arrested for allegedly inciting violence during the anti-CAA agitation, Assam activist and newly-elected MLA Akhil Gogoi walked out of judicial custody on Thursday after a..IndiaTimes - Published | 3 activists walk free on HC’s prod, 48 hours after bail orderIt took a second intervention in less than 48 hours by the Delhi HC to finally ensure Jamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha and JNU’s Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal were released from Tihar jail on..IndiaTimes - Published |
