Unlawful Activities Prevention Act

The system can lament, apportion blame, but it never interfered, never once tried to understand why a man would want to live among tribals and work for them, ignoring calls to comfort. Death was virtually delivered to Stan Swamy’s cell by the system.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea seeking an SIT probe into the hate crimes against Muslims that took place between October 13 to October 27, 2021, in Tripura.

Supreme Court bench issued notice in a plea challenging the invocation of UAPA act, 1967 by the State of Tripura against member of the Civil Society including Advocates and Journalist who have documented and spoken out against the targeted atrocities in a communal violence in the State.

Senior Advocate Trideep Pais said, "UAPA, POTA, PMLA are distrust of judiciary. These are enacted so that your (judiciary) hands are tied. This is a joke. No accused should be held in this FIR. This is a cooked-up FIR."

A Supreme Court bench while hearing the plea challenging the Kerala High Court judgment in a Gold Smuggling case has issued limited notice to examine the question of law involved in the matters only, and not interfere with the bail granted to an accused person in the case.

The Supreme Court observed that the matter requiring interpretation of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act needs to be heard by a larger bench

The appeal has been filed challenging the order of the Delhi HC allowing bail to 2019 Delhi riots accused in appeal filed under section 21(5) of the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 r/w section 43(D)(5) of the UAPA.

The appellant and others are facing trial for the offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act besides other offences

The arrest of a journalist en route to Hathras has unveiled the draconian features of the Act, under which anyone can be arrested for a period of six months without any proof of anti-national activities. It raises serious questions about violation of human rights.