The Supreme Court on Friday, 6 September, sought a response from the Centre on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the amendments made to the UAPA.
The petitions challenges the changes to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on various grounds, including that these infringed upon fundamental rights of citizens and empowered agencies to declare persons a terrorist.
Recently, the Parliament had passed the amendments in the UAPA which empowers government agencies to declare a person as terrorist.
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