The trio was booked under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and various sections of the Indian Penal Code. including waging a war and sedition.
The petitions challenge the changes to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on various grounds, including that these infringed upon fundamental rights of citizens and empowered agencies to declare persons a terrorist.
Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed were declared individual terrorists by the government under a new anti-terror law.
Bihar MLA Anant Singh was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) after a police team raided his ancestral house at Ladma village in Patna district and seized an AK-47 rifle, a magazine, live cartridges and two hand grenades on Friday.
Replying to a debate on the amendment to the anti-terror law, Home Minister Amit Shah said a four-level scrutiny has been provided in the amendment and no human rights will be violated.
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi said he has been a victim of this act and that Congress would realise what they have done only if their leader spends several months in prison.
Amit Shah said that provision in UAPA (amendment) bill to designate a person suspected to have terror links as terrorist is necessary to root out terror.
Contentious Bills like the Triple Talaq needed scrutiny, feels the Opposition but the NDA, as data shows, does not believe in delaying its stamp of authority
Prof Shoma Sen was arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, as were activists Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhawale, and lawyer Surendra Gadling as part of the police probe into the violence at Bhima-Koregaon.
