Allowing the State to Designate Someone as a ‘Terrorist’ Without Trial is Dangerous
The Wire / by Siddharth Varadarajan
The UAPA Amendment Bill is the single most dangerous piece of legislation the country has ever seen.
Should government officials and politicians – even upstanding democrats with a long record of respecting the rule of law like home minister Amit Shah – be trusted with the power to designate an individual as a “terrorist”, that too, without that person being tried and convicted?
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