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Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday referred the bail pleas of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the 2020 Delhi riots case to a larger bench.The apex court also declined to respond to observations made in a recent verdict questioning its January…
UAPA terror case: US citizen, 6 Ukrainians sent to 30-day judicial custody NEW DELHI: A special NIA court in Delhi on Monday remanded seven foreign nationals — six Ukrainians and one US citizen — to 30 days’ judicial custody till May 6 in a terror case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).Special Judge…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has slapped the stringent UAPA against notorious arms dealer Shahbaz Ansari, currently believed to be in Bangladesh. Arrested for supplying weapons that were used in the murder of singer Sidhu Moose Wala, Ansari fled the country after seeking bail and is now believed to be working with ISI-backed entities.Police said a…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said trials in UAPA cases investigated by National Investigation Agency must be concluded within one year by additional exclusive special courts to allay misgivings about long pendency and consequent denial of bail for years.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said the Centre and states must…
NEW DELHI: Asiya Andrabi, founder of the women’s separatist outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring against the State under stringent anti-terror laws.A Delhi court, presided over by Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh also sentenced her associates, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, to 30 years of imprisonment. The court directed…
Asiya Andrabi (extreme right) and her three young students. (TOI file photo) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced Kashmiri separatist and Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case.Her two associates, Fehmeeda and Nasreen, were sentenced to 30 years in prison in the same case.On January…
NEW DELHI: SC judge Ujjal Bhuyan Sunday said the political executive’s goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047 requires more room for debate and dissent without criminalising these, and erasure of “deep social fault lines” reflected in caste-based discrimination and atrocities on Dalits. Addressing the first national conference of SC Bar Association in Bengaluru, Justice Bhuyan…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Wednesday convicted Asiya Andrabi, the founder of Kashmiri women separatist organisation Dukhtaraan-e-Millat, and two of her associates – Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen – for conspiring to “wage war against the country”.Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh of NIA court held the trio guilty under UAPA and IPC. The court…
AI-generated image used for representation (Source: ChatGPT) Umar still in “qaid,” and there is no different picture for Sharjeel Imam. A long spell behind bars, even before the formal beginning of the trial, cannot simply be a “trump card” or a “gateway to bail” in cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Supreme Court…
JAMMU: Police in Jammu’s Kathua district on Friday attached property of seven people, currently based in Pakistan and against whom cases have been registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the EIMCO Act.The accused have been identified as Mohammed Ayaz, Abdul Kareem, Sarfraz Nawaz, Mohammed Farooq, Mohammed Hafeez, and Gul Mohammed, all residents of…
