New Delhi, March 25
The Centre has constituted a tribunal headed by a Delhi High Court judge to decide whether there is sufficient cause for declaring Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir an unlawful association.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on March 23 issued a notification which states that Justice Mukta Gupta would head the tribunal set up under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Justice Gupta is presently heading another tribunal set up under UAPA to ascertain whether there was sufficient cause to extend the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as an unlawful association.
The Centre banned JeI J&K for five years on grounds that it was “in close touch” with militant outfits.
The outfit, formed in 1945 as a chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and separated in 1953, was banned in 1990. The previous ban lapsed in 1995 and was not invoked again. — PTI
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