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Mere association with Dawood Ibrahim will not amount to terror gang membership under UAPA: Bombay High Court https://www.barandbench.com/news/mere-association-dawood-ibrahim-not-uapa-offence-terror-gang-membership-bombay-high-court The Court explained that UAPA has different provisions on the activities of an individual and the activities of a terrorist gang or terrorist organisation. Text of judgement : https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/parvez-vaid-vs-state-of-maharashtra-550689.pdf In order to attract the provisions of Section 20 of UAPA, which has prescribed punishment for being a member of terrorist gang or an organisation, it is necessary to refer to the concept of terrorist gang/terrorist organization which has been assigned a definite connotation in Section 2(l) and 2(m) to the following effect: 2(l) “terrorist gang” means any association, other than terrorist organisation, whether systematic or otherwise, which is concerned with, or involved in, terrorist act; 2(m) “terrorist organisation” means an organisation listed in the Schedule or an organisation operating under the same name as an organisation so listed; The bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Manjusha Deshpande noted Section 20 UAPA and Section 164 CrPC statements that referred Parvez Vaid as a Member of D-gang and observed, “it would not attract the offence u/s.20, as by the amendment in Schedule IV, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, has been declared as a terrorist in individual capacity, and therefore, any association with him on the pretext that a person belongs to D-gang/Dawood gang will not attract the provisions of Section 20.” - https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-high-court-parvez-zubair-vaid-v-the-state-of-maharashtra-2024bhc-as28377-db-section-20-uapa-d-gang-terrorist-individual-capacity-dawood-ibrahim-1544722

Don't Make Mockery Of Justice' : Supreme Court Rebukes NIA For 4-Year Delay In Trial; Says Accused Has Right To Speedy Trial https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/dont-make-mockery-of-justice-supreme-court-rebukes-nia-for-delaying-trial-says-accused-has-right-to-speedy-trial-262127 Gyanvi Khanna 3 July 2024 You are the State; you are the NIA… He (the accused) has the right to a speedy trial, whatever offence he has committed. He might have committed a serious offence, but you are under the obligation to start the trial. He has been in jail for the past four years. Till date, the charge has not been framed.,” said Justice Pardiwala...

According to the allegations, on February 9, 2020, at 9:30, the appellant was apprehended by the Mumbai police on the basis of secret information. After such an operation was undertaken, counterfeit currency notes were recovered. Allegedly, the notes were from Pakistan.

The United Nations Human Rights Office, led by high commissioner for human rights Volker Turk, has urged the Indian government to drop the Unlawful Activities case against writer Arundhati Roy and former professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain for remarks they made in 2010.

https://thewire.in/rights/un-rights-chief-urges-india-to-withdraw-uapa-case-against-arundhati-roy-sheikh-showkat-hussain 

The invocation of the UAPA against the two will allow the government to bypass the statute of limitations for the IPC sections involved and that the definition of “unlawful activities” – in Section 13 of the Act, under which the police have sought sanction to prosecute them – includes phrases used in sedition law.

28/06/2024