NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday prolonged the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for an additional 5 years as an ‘illegal affiliation’ underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. MHA made the announcement by way of 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 “unlawful association for a further period of five years under Section 3(1) of the Unlawful Activities (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 “continuing to be involved in fomenting terrorism, disturbing the peace and communal harmony in the country which are prejudicial to the sovereignty, security and integrity of India.” Many prison circumstances have been registered in opposition to SIMI and its members underneath numerous sections of regulation together with the UAPA.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated the transfer is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi authorities’s ‘zero tolerance’ coverage. “Bolstering PM @narendramodi Ji’s vision of zero tolerance against terrorism ‘Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)’ has been declared as an ‘Unlawful Association’ for a further period of five years under the UAPA. The SIMI has been found involved in fomenting terrorism, disturbing peace and communal harmony to threaten the sovereignty, security 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 security of the country and have the potential of disturbing peace and communal harmony and disrupting the secular fabric of the country.” It additional linked SIMI’s position in a number of circumstances, together with a case registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in opposition to Athar Parvej and Mohd Jalaluddin of Phulawari Sharif, Patna regarding a conspiracy to disrupt the go to of the Prime Minister in July 2022.
The notification additional pointed that “if the unlawful activities of the SIMI are not curbed and controlled immediately, it will take the opportunity to continue its subversive activities and re-organize its activists who are still absconding; disrupt the secular fabric of the country by polluting the minds of the people by creating communal disharmony; propagate anti-national sentiments; escalate secessionism by supporting militancy; and undertake activities which are prejudicial to the integrity and security of the country.”
Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh have already really useful for declaration of SIMI as an ‘illegal affiliation’ underneath the provisions of the UAPA.
