Rehearsed Truth: Eight Successive Bans on SIMI by UAPA Tribunals

Apr 12, 2020 | Undemocratic Laws

Rehearsed Truths: Eight Successive Bans on SIMI by UAPA Tribunals examines a special feature of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967—the role of Tribunals in reviewing and confirming bans on ‘unlawful’ organizations. Focusing attention on SIMI’s eight...

simi-notifications

Mar 15, 2019 | Undemocratic Laws

Comparative tabulation of  Notifications related to banning SIMI from 2001 to 2019.

Banned and Damned to Death: Press Statement on Custodial Killings of SIMI Undertrials

Nov 2, 2016 | Encounters

On the morning of 31st October eight male Muslim undertrials- Amjad Khan, Mehboob alias Guddu, Zakir Hussain, Mohammad Salik, Akeel Khilji, Mohammad Khalid, Mujeeb Shaikh, Majid- all accused in SIMI related cases, were brutally shot dead by the Madhya Pradesh (MP)...

Continuing cases of SIMI acquittals expose the fraudulent nature of UAPA

Oct 14, 2015 | Communalism, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights

On 30th September 2015, a local court in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, acquitted 14 persons who had been arrested on 14th June 2011 on charges of being members of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and for holding a banned meeting in a residential house in Khandwa...

Justice Kait Tribunal on SIMI: A Critical Update

Aug 15, 2015 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights

On July 30, 2014, Justice Kait headed SIMI Tribunal upheld the ban after examining 21 cases, 18 of which were “fresh cases” and examining 30 state officials in “support of the ban” and concluded that: “the evidence brought on record clearly and unambiguously...