Centre sets up tribunal to adjudicate ban imposed on eight insurgent groups of Manipur
Source: IT News / Agency
New Delhi, December 15 2018:
Union government of India
has constituted a tribunal to
adjudicate matters related to
extension of ban imposed on
eight insurgent groups in
Manipur for five more years
over continued involvement in
unlawful and violent activities.
In a notification, the Home
Ministry said the tribunal was
set up under the Unlawful
Activities (Prevention)
Act,
1967 and will be headed by
Delhi High Court judge Justice
Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
The tribunal will adjudicate
whether or not there is
sufficient cause for declaring
the Meitei extremist
organisations of Manipur as
"Unlawful
Associations", the
notification said.
The organisations which were
banned last month include
Peoples' Liberation Army generally known as PLA and
its political wing, Revolutionary Peoples' Front(RPF), United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and its armed wing Manipur Peoples' Army (MPA),
Peoples' Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) and its armed wing 'Red Army' .
The others are Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) and its armed wing, also called Red
Army; Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL); the Coordination Committee (CorCom) and Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak (ASUK) .
The home ministry said the
eight Meitei extremist
organisations of Manipur
were involved in 756 violent
incidents in the past five years
from January 1, 2013 to July
31, 2018 during which they
killed 86 people, including 35
security personnel.
The groups have been
indulging in acts of
intimidation, extortion and
looting of civilian population
for collection of funds, making
contacts with sources abroad
for influencing public opinion
and securing assistance by
way of arms and training for
the purpose of achieving their
secessionist objective, the
ministry said.
They are also indulging in
such activities for maintaining
camps in neighbouring
countries for the purpose of
sanctuaries, training and
clandestine procurement of
arms and ammunition, it had said.