NEW DELHI: Contemplating a terrorist act for years, even without executing it, constitutes a terrorist act, the Delhi high court has said.“The definition of ‘terrorist act’ under Section 15 of UAPA clearly includes the expressions ‘with intent to strike terror’, by any other means of whatever nature to cause or likely to cause. Such an…
HYDERABAD: Barely seven months after he was cleared of having links with Maoists by Bombay HC, which called the trial court proceedings a “failure of justice”, former DU professor GN Saibaba died Saturday night at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences hospital. Doctors said he was admitted for removal of gallstones and died of post-surgery complications.The…
NEW DELHI: Observing that rigorous bail provisions in statutes like PMLA, anti-terror law UAPA and NDPS Act cannot become a ‘tool’ to keep an undertrial accused in jail for unreasonably long time, Supreme Court on Thursday held that the requirement of expeditious disposal of cases must be read into these statutes as inordinate delay in…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to a man accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), emphasising that the legal principle “bail is rule, jail is an exception” is applicable even to offences under special statues.The top court highlighted that denying bail in deserving cases would be a violation of fundamental…
Rizwan Ali, was wanted for over a year since he escaped from Pune Police’s custody in July 2023. NEW DELHI: Preventing a major attack on the national capital ahead of Independence Day, Delhi Police‘s special cell has arrested an Islamic State (IS) operative who was on the list of “most wanted” terrorists and being hunted…
NEW DELHI: Calling the Delhi Lieutenant Governor‘s decision to prosecute author Arundhati Roy under the stringent UAPA for a speech she delivered in 2010 a “misuse of power,” Nationalist Congress Party-SP (NCP-SP) leader Sharad Pawar criticised his decision. Pawar made these remarks during a joint press conference with his Maha Vikas Aghadi allies, Uddhav Thackeray…
Author Arundhati Roy (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The lieutenant governor of Delhi on Friday gave prosecution sanction against author Arundhati Roy under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for a ‘provocative’ speech she delivered at an event in 2010, according to officials from Raj Niwas.(This is a developing story) Source link
JAMMU: The J&K state investigation agency (SIA) Friday attached the property of an absconding terrorist, Abdul Hameed Khan, in Jammu’s Rajouri district under section 33 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).A SIA spokesperson said the attachment was in connection with an FIR case registered in 2021 against Abdul, a resident of Manjakote tehsil in…
