THE DRACONIAN REALITY OF UAPA: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES PREVENTION ACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS by Yusuf Kathat
Author: Yusuf Kathat, LLM (Corporate and Commercial Law), Manipal University, Jaipur ABSTRACT The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, introduced in 1908, has its roots in colonial times, and this is where the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, of 1967, comes from. The newly modified act was intended to broadly and explicitly imprison freedom fighters. Firstly, introducing the “Unlawful Association.” Even after independence, the Nehru government preferred to exploit the act’s provisions to…