NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Dwelling Affairs (MHA) on Monday prolonged the ban on the College students Islamic Motion of India (SIMI) for one more 5 years as an ‘illegal affiliation’ underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act. MHA made the announcement by a notification informing that it took motion by exercising the powers conferred by the provisions of UAPA.
As per the notification, SIMI was banned as an “illegal affiliation for an extra interval of 5 years underneath Part 3(1) of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) 1967.)” The Ministry had declared the SIMI as an illegal affiliation on September 27, 2001, and it later stored on extending the ban on September 26, 2003, February 8, 2006, February 7, 2008, February 5, 2010, February 3, 2012, February 1, 2014, and January 31, 2019.
The recent motion got here contemplating that the SIMI is “persevering with to be concerned in fomenting terrorism, disturbing the peace and communal concord within the nation that are prejudicial to the sovereignty, safety and integrity of India.” Many felony circumstances have been registered in opposition to SIMI and its members underneath varied sections of legislation together with the UAPA.
Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah mentioned the transfer is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi authorities’s ‘zero tolerance’ coverage. “Bolstering PM @narendramodi Ji’s imaginative and prescient of zero tolerance in opposition to terrorism ‘College students Islamic Motion of India (SIMI)’ has been declared as an ‘Illegal Affiliation’ for an extra interval of 5 years underneath the UAPA. The SIMI has been discovered concerned in fomenting terrorism, disturbing peace and communal concord to threaten the sovereignty, safety and integrity of Bharat,” Shah posted on ‘X’, previously Twitter.
As per the recent notification, SIMI has been indulging in actions, that are “prejudicial to the safety of the nation and have the potential of disturbing peace and communal concord and disrupting the secular material of the nation.” It additional linked SIMI’s position in a number of circumstances, together with a case registered by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in opposition to Athar Parvej and Mohd Jalaluddin of Phulawari Sharif, Patna referring to a conspiracy to disrupt the go to of the Prime Minister in July 2022.
The notification additional pointed that “if the illegal actions of the SIMI are usually not curbed and managed instantly, it’ll take the chance to proceed its subversive actions and re-organize its activists who’re nonetheless absconding; disrupt the secular material of the nation by polluting the minds of the folks by creating communal disharmony; propagate anti-national sentiments; escalate secessionism by supporting militancy; and undertake actions that are prejudicial to the integrity and safety of the nation.”
Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh have already beneficial for declaration of SIMI as an ‘illegal affiliation’ underneath the provisions of the UAPA.
