Leaders for re-look into anti-terror law
5 Nov 2012 9:09 AM IST
Leaders cutting across party lines on Sundaycautioned against selectively targeting Muslim youths in terror-related cases, saying isolation would do no good and urged a re-look into provisions of the anti-terror law.
Addressing a National Convention on ‘Politics of Terror: Targeting Muslim Youth’ here, leaders like Prakash Karat, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Manishankar Aiyar, Ramvilas Paswan and NCM chairperson Wajahat Habibullah felt Muslims youth were in some cases ‘falsely’ charged with terrorism. They spoke for the need to put a mechanism and procedures to stop such ‘selective’ isolation. Noting that ‘fabricated cases, reports of torture in custody and illegal detention are challenges to democracy’, Karat said the existing Unlawful Activities Prevention Act has many provisions from the repealed law Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
Addressing a National Convention on ‘Politics of Terror: Targeting Muslim Youth’ here, leaders like Prakash Karat, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Manishankar Aiyar, Ramvilas Paswan and NCM chairperson Wajahat Habibullah felt Muslims youth were in some cases ‘falsely’ charged with terrorism. They spoke for the need to put a mechanism and procedures to stop such ‘selective’ isolation. Noting that ‘fabricated cases, reports of torture in custody and illegal detention are challenges to democracy’, Karat said the existing Unlawful Activities Prevention Act has many provisions from the repealed law Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
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