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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday constituted a seven-member lawyers’ team led by solicitor general Tushar Mehta to defend its November 15 notification imposing a fresh five-year ban under UAPA on Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), founded by fugitive evangelist Zakir Naik, before an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal.
The ministry of home affairs also nominated six senior central government counsel – Sachin Datta, Amit Mahajan, Rajat Nair, Kanu Agrawal, Jay Prakash and Dhruv Pandey – to appear before the UAP Tribunal, which would test the necessity, reasons and requirements of the ban imposed on IRF.
IRF was termed as an “unlawful association” under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on November 17, 2016, for a period of five years. The ban on IRF was extended for five more years by a fresh notification issued on November 15.
MHA in its notification had said that if the activities of the “unlawful association” were not curbed, it would continue its subversive activities and reorganize its absconding activists to create communal disharmony, propagate anti-national sentiments and support militancy.
The Central government was of the opinion that the IRF and its members, particularly, its founder and president Zakir Abdul Karim Naik alias Zakir Naik, has been encouraging and aiding its followers to promote or attempt to promote, on grounds of religion, disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious communities and groups which are prejudicial to the integrity and security of the country. It referred to his statements and speeches saying that they were objectionable and subversive, and added that Naik, through such speeches and statements, was inspiring youths of a particular religion in India and abroad, to commit terrorist acts. It has to produce evidence before the Tribunal to justify the fresh notification.
The ministry of home affairs also nominated six senior central government counsel – Sachin Datta, Amit Mahajan, Rajat Nair, Kanu Agrawal, Jay Prakash and Dhruv Pandey – to appear before the UAP Tribunal, which would test the necessity, reasons and requirements of the ban imposed on IRF.
IRF was termed as an “unlawful association” under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on November 17, 2016, for a period of five years. The ban on IRF was extended for five more years by a fresh notification issued on November 15.
MHA in its notification had said that if the activities of the “unlawful association” were not curbed, it would continue its subversive activities and reorganize its absconding activists to create communal disharmony, propagate anti-national sentiments and support militancy.
The Central government was of the opinion that the IRF and its members, particularly, its founder and president Zakir Abdul Karim Naik alias Zakir Naik, has been encouraging and aiding its followers to promote or attempt to promote, on grounds of religion, disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious communities and groups which are prejudicial to the integrity and security of the country. It referred to his statements and speeches saying that they were objectionable and subversive, and added that Naik, through such speeches and statements, was inspiring youths of a particular religion in India and abroad, to commit terrorist acts. It has to produce evidence before the Tribunal to justify the fresh notification.
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