{"id":8869,"date":"2020-07-07T18:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2020-07-07T18:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:57:45","slug":"unlawful-activities-prevention-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/unlawful-activities-prevention-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlawful Activities Prevention Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper II: Governance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The Union Home Ministry designated nine more individuals as \u201cterrorists\u201d under the amended anti-terror law that was passed by Parliament last year. The nine persons declared terrorists are linked to separatist Khalistani groups that seek to establish a separate country for the Sikhs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dhyeyaias.com\/sites\/default\/files\/field\/image\/Unlawful-Activities-Prevention-Amendment-Act-2019-Hard-Line.jpg\" alt=\"Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, 2019 : An ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, or anti-terror law was amended by the Lok Sabha in 2019. This bill empowers to central agencies and states to deal with terrorist activities strictly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>The Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) was enacted in 1967.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The 2004 amendment was to ban organisations for terrorist activities, under which 34 outfits, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad, were banned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The 2019 amendment gave the Home Ministry the power to designate individuals as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Earlier, in September 2019, the four individuals to be first designated as terrorists were JeM chief Masood Azhar, LeT\u2019s Hafiz Saeed, his deputy Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who planned and executed the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Past controversies:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Opposition parties had raised concerns in Parliament that the 2019 amendment could be misused against political opponents and civil society activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 However, Home Minister had said in Rajya Sabha that \u201cit was important to identify terrorists and not just organisations\u201d. The designations are also in alignment with laws in European Union (EU) countries, the U.S.A., China, Israel and even Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper II: Governance Why in news? \u2022 The Union Home Ministry designated nine more individuals as \u201cterrorists\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}