Modi Government’s ban on Yasin Malik’s JKLF extended for 5 years

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Saturday that the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front's ban would be extended for another five years.

The minister said the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League, which was also declared a banned group for five years, has threatened India's integrity by promoting, aiding and abetting secession of Jammu and Kashmir through terrorism.

In another tweet, he said, Pursuing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policy of zero-tolerance towards terrorism, the MHA has declared four factions of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League—namely, JKPL (Mukhtar Ahmed Waza), JKPL (Bashir Ahmad Tota), JKPL (Ghulam Mohammad Khan) and JKPL (Aziz Sheikh) led by Yaqoob Sheikh—as 'Unlawful Associations'. These organizations were involved in inciting terror and abetting secessionism in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front is a separatist organisation banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in March 2019 before the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special constitutional status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.

The organisation is led by Yasin Malik, who is serving life imprisonment in a terror funding case in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.

The government on Wednesday established a tribunal led by Delhi High Court judge Navin Chawla to evaluate if there were valid reasons to prolong the prohibition on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir. The organization was classified as unlawful in February 2019.