PFI Restrictions in India: not central government Popular Front of India (PFI) and 8 affiliated organizations have been banned for 5 years. Ministry of Home Affairs under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). PFI This action has been taken. Under the UAPA, the central government can declare or ban any organization as ‘unlawful’ or ‘terrorist’. Before PFI, 42 organizations have been declared terrorist organizations, that is, they have been banned. These include several Khalistani organizations, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, LTTE and Al Qaeda.
According to the information given by the Ministry of Home Affairs, 42 organizations have been declared terrorist organizations in the country. That is, they have been banned. These include several Khalistani organizations, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, LTTE and Al Qaeda.
Which organizations were banned before PFI?
- Babbar Khalsa International
- Khalistan Commando Force
- Khalistan Zindabad Force
- International Sikh Youth Federation
- Lashkar-e-Taiba/Pasban-e-Ahle Hadith
- Jaish-e-Mohammed / Tehreek-e-Furqani
- Harkat-ul-Mujahideen or Harkat-ul-Ansar or Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami, Ansar-ul-Umma (AUU)
- Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment
- Al-Umar-Mujahideen
- Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front
- United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
- National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam
- People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
- United National Liberation Front (UNLF)
- People’s Revolutionary Party of Kanglipak (PREPAK)
- Kangalipak Communist Party (KCP)
- Kanglei Yaol Kamba Loop (KYKL)
- Manipur People’s Liberation Front
- All Tripura Tiger Force
- National Liberation Front of Tripura
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
- Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)
- Didar Anjuman
- Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
- Maoist Communist Center (MCC)
- al badri
- Jamiat Al Mujahideen
- Al Qaeda – Al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent
- Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM)
- Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA)
- Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT)
- All India Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES)
- A participating organization on the United Nations’ list of prevention and suppression of terrorism
- All major organizations affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
- Indian Mujahideen, Front Organization of
- Front organization of Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
- Kamtapur Liberation Organization, its lead organization
- Islamic State/ Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/ Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ Daesh/ Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP)/ ISIS Vilayat Khorasan/ Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K) and all its Affiliates
- National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) and all its affiliated organizations
- Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF)
- Tehreek ul Mujahideen
- Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen India or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan and all organizations associated with it
When is an organization declared as ‘Terrorist’ organization?
Section 35 of the UAPA empowers the central government to declare any organization as a terrorist organization. But there are some conditions for that too. Only if the central government thinks that an organization is involved in terrorist activities or strong evidence is available, then it is considered a terrorist organization and the central government can ban that organization.
- is involved in terrorist activities or has committed terrorist acts
- Terrorist conspiracy may have been hatched
- It may have fueled terrorism
- If in any way involved in terrorist activities
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