BRIG HEMANT MAHAJAN NATIONAL SECURITY

HINDU TERROR NO SUCH GROUP IN HOME MINISTERS LIST

Sushilkumar Shinde’s outlandish claim on Hindu terror, not a single outfit related to the majority community was banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967.

Home Ministry’s data showed that 13 Islamic outfits figure in total of 34 such entities banned under UAPA. This list of proscribed groups is placed on the Union Home Ministry’s official website. 

Incidentally, the NIA chargesheets against the right wing terror accused in various cases are exclusively based on confessional statements that have subsequently been questioned in courts.

The banned Islamist groups include Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT)/Pasban-e-Ahle-Hadis, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)/Tahrik-e-Furkan, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Indian Mujahideen (IM along with all its formations) and Hijbul Mujahideen/Hizbul Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment among others. Other banned Jehadi groups are Al Umar Mujahideen, Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front, Deendar Anjuman, Al Badr, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Al Qaida and Dukhtaran-e-Millat.

Four banned outfits, including Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force and International Sikh Youth Federation, are related to Khalistan movement.

Three Maoist outfits banned under the Act include Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Maoist Communist Centre and Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Likewise, three Tamil groups — Tamil Nadu Liberation Army, Tamil National Retrieval Troops and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam — find a mention in the list of banned organisations.

Ten other outfits pertain to Northeast insurgency — United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT). Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES) also finds a mention in the list.

Besides these, the Union Home Ministry has also banned organisations listed in the Schedule to the UN Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (Implementation of Security Council Resolutions) Order, 2007 made under Section 2 of the United Nations (Security Council) Act, 1947 and as amended from time to time.