Centre sets up tribunal to weather adjudicate to ban Jamaat-e-Islami J&K, JKLF

CONTEXT:

  • The Centre has set up a tribunal to adjudicate if there exists sufficient cause to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JeL) and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front-Yasin Malik (JKLF-Y) faction.
  • The tribunal will be headed by Justice Chander Shekhar of the Delhi High Court.
  • The decision to constitute a tribunal has been taken by the Ministry exercising the powers conferred under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
  • Both the organisations were declared as unlawful associations by the centre.

 

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