{"id":164848,"date":"2025-01-05T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=164848"},"modified":"2025-01-05T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:04:11","slug":"uapa-tribunal-upholds-5-year-ban-on-pannuns-sikhs-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/01\/05\/uapa-tribunal-upholds-5-year-ban-on-pannuns-sikhs-for-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"UAPA tribunal upholds 5-year ban on Pannun\u2019s Sikhs for Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164849\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pannue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) Tribunal has upheld Indian government\u2019s decision to impose a five-year ban on Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistan group led by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the tribunal, headed by Delhi High Court Judge Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, was constituted to review the validity of the ban imposed by India&#8217;s Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal confirmed the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which had imposed the five-year ban on SFJ. The group, led by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, was formally banned by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry had extended the ban on SFJ under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, citing the group\u2019s involvement in \u201canti-India and subversive activities aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A similar ban was previously imposed on SFJ by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) Tribunal has upheld Indian government\u2019s decision to impose a five-year ban on Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistan group led by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. According to Kashmir Media Service, the tribunal, headed by Delhi High Court Judge Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, was constituted to review the validity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-164848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/Pannue.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}