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Hello, we are @aimanjkhan & @GuneetKaurAhuja. Today, we will discuss how #UAPA gives wide powers to the government to facilitate prolonged incarceration of human rights defenders, & gives the police a multi-purpose tool to target innocent minorities. 1/n
As a 1st step, let's recap some of the wide discretionary powers that investigating agencies get, to decide who will be targeted by UAPA. It is totally at the whim of the government on which organization is banned & which is not. 2/n
At an all-state DGP’s conference, DGP’s of Maharashtra, MP & Rajasthan had made a strong plea for a concurrent ban on Bajrang Dal & SIMI as ‘internal terrorist organizations.’ However, only SIMI- a Muslim organization was banned under UAPA. See- sabrang.com/pota.pdf 3/n
