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NEW DELHI: A judicial tribunal of the Delhi Excessive Court docket has upheld the Centre’s ban on two factions of the separatist group Muslim Convention Jammu and Kashmir and 4 factions of one other secessionist organisation, Jammu and Kashmir Folks’s League (JKPL), for threatening India’s integrity by selling, aiding and abetting the secession of Jammu and Kashmir by way of terrorism.
Three separate orders — one for the Muslim Convention Jammu and Kashmir (Bhat faction), one other for Muslim Convention Jammu and Kashmir (Sumji faction) and a 3rd one for the 4 factions of the JKPL — upholding the ban imposed beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act had been issued by the tribunal consisting of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, a Delhi Excessive Court docket decide.
The Muslim Convention Jammu and Kashmir (MCJK-Bhat) was declared a banned affiliation by the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) by way of a notification on February 28.
The tribunal was constituted on March 18 for the aim of adjudicating whether or not or not there was adequate trigger for declaring the MCJK-Bhat an illegal affiliation.
“And, whereas, the stated tribunal, in train of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of part 4 of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967, handed an order on August 23, 2024, confirming the declaration made within the stated notification,” the house ministry stated by way of a notification issued on Tuesday.
Whereas imposing the ban, the ministry had stated the MCJK-Bhat had linkages with banned terror outfits and supported terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, its members had been indulging in producing emotions of hatred and disaffection towards the nation to separate Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India, and its leaders and members had been concerned in elevating funds by way of varied sources, together with from Pakistan and its proxy organisations, for perpetrating illegal actions, together with supporting terror actions and sustained stone-pelting on safety forces. The MHA had additionally stated the MCJK-Bhat and its members, by their actions, confirmed sheer disrespect in direction of the nation’s constitutional authority and constitutional arrange, gave a clarion name to boycott polls on a number of events, tried to subvert the desire of individuals and the democratic course of in Jammu and Kashmir, and had been concerned in selling, aiding and abetting the secession of Jammu and Kashmir from India by way of anti-national and subversive actions.
Within the second order, the tribunal upheld the February 28 ban imposed on the MCJK (Sumji faction).
In its order issued on August 23, the tribunal accepted the house ministry’s submission that the MCJK (Sumji faction), chaired by Ghulam Nabi Sumji, is understood for its anti-India and pro-Pakistan propaganda, its members are concerned in supporting terror actions and offering logistic help to terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
Apart from being concerned in elevating funds by way of varied sources, together with from Pakistan and its proxy organisations, for perpetrating illegal actions, its members had been additionally concerned in supporting terror actions, sustained stone-pelting on safety forces and always requested the folks of Kashmir to chorus from collaborating in elections and thereby, focused and hampered the very fundamental constitutionally-recognised fundamentals of Indian democracy.
Within the third order, the tribunal confirmed the ban imposed on the 4 factions of the Jammu and Kashmir Folks’s League — JKPL (Mukhtar Ahmed Waza), JKPL (Bashir Ahmad Tota), JKPL (Ghulam Mohammad Khan alias Sopori), which is also called Jammu and Kashmir Folks’s Political League, and JKPL (Aziz Sheikh) led by Yaqoob Sheikh — as illegal associations.
Whereas declaring the 4 JKPL factions outlawed beneath the UAPA on March 15, the MHA had stated the teams had been concerned in supporting terror actions and spreading anti-India propaganda for fuelling secessionism in Jammu and Kashmir, and their members had been concerned in mobilising violent protests in varied elements of Jammu and Kashmir for perpetrating illegal actions.
The members of the teams had been additionally concerned in stone-pelting on safety forces, have always requested the folks of Jammu and Kashmir to chorus from collaborating in elections and thereby, focused and hampered the very fundamental constitutionally-recognised fundamentals of Indian democracy, the ministry had stated.
The tribunal, in its August 29 order, stated: “From the frilly materials and proof positioned on document in these proceedings, this tribunal finds that there’s ample justification to uphold the ban on the 4 factions of the JKPL and uphold the declaration of the 4 factions of the JKPL, specifically JKPL (Mukhtar Ahmed Waza), JKPL (Bashir Ahmed Tota), JKPL (Ghulam Mohammed Khan @ Sopori) also called Jammu and Kashmir Folks’s Political League, and JKPL (Aziz Sheikh) led by Yaqoob Sheikh as being ‘illegal associations’ beneath the UAPA.”