{"id":227165,"date":"2023-02-18T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227165"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:46:09","slug":"designation-of-organisations-individuals-as-terrorist-organization-terrorist-under-the-unlawful-activities-prevention-act-1967uapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/designation-of-organisations-individuals-as-terrorist-organization-terrorist-under-the-unlawful-activities-prevention-act-1967uapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Designation of Organisations\/individuals as \u2018Terrorist Organization\u2019\/ \u2018Terrorist\u2019 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967(UAPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Designation of Organisations\/individuals as \u2018Terrorist Organization\u2019\/ \u2018Terrorist\u2019 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967(UAPA)<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 17th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Home Affairs has designated the Khalistan Tiger Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force as terrorist organizations under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Punjab resident, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, who is presently based in Pakistan\u2019s Lahore, was also designated as an \u201cindividual terrorist\u201d under the anti-terror law.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the UAPA Act?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uapa-and-the-recent-judgments\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Can an individual be declared as a terrorist under UAPA Act?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Government amended the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in August 2019 to include the provision of designating an individual as a terrorist. Prior to this amendment, only organizations could be designated as terrorist organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How individuals are declared terrorists?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central government may designate an individual as a terrorist through a notification in the official gazette and add his name to the schedule supplemented by the UAPA Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government is not required to give an individual an opportunity to be heard before such a designation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How can individuals remove the terrorist tag?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UAPA gives the central government the power to remove a name from the schedule when an individual makes an application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If an application filed by an individual declared a terrorist is rejected by the government, the UAPA gives him the right to seek a review within one month after the application is rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central government will set up the review committee consisting of a chairperson (a retired or sitting judge of a High Court) and three other members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The review committee is empowered to order the government to delete the name of the individual from the schedule that lists \u201cterrorists\u201d if it considers the order to be flawed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from these two avenues, the individual can also move the courts to challenge the government\u2019s order.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDesignation of Organisations\/individuals as \u2018Terrorist Organization\u2019\/ \u2018Terrorist\u2019 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967(UAPA)\u201d published in PIB on 17th February 2023 What is the News? The Ministry of Home Affairs has designated the Khalistan Tiger Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force as terrorist organizations under&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/designation-of-organisations-individuals-as-terrorist-organization-terrorist-under-the-unlawful-activities-prevention-act-1967uapa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Designation of Organisations\/individuals as \u2018Terrorist Organization\u2019\/ \u2018Terrorist\u2019 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967(UAPA)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-227165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}