Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act (UAPA), 2019

Recently the Union government declared India’s most wanted terrorists Dawood Ibrahim, Hafiz Saeed, Zakir-ur-Rahman Lakhvi and Masood Azhar,terrorists under the UAPA, 2019.

Background

  • UAPA, 1967 was enacted to prevent certain unlawful activities which means any action taken by an individual or association (whether by committing an act or by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representation or otherwise) which is intended to bring about secession from India or disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India or causes or is intended to cause disaffection against India.
  • It was enacted after the Indo-China war ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Buy November 2019 Issue

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Related Content

Current Affairs In Focus