The Centre pointed out that every new recruit of SIMI is administered an oath which asserts that they would operate for 'establishment of Islamic system'. The affidavit was submitted in response to a petition contesting the 2019 notification that extended the outfit's ban under the UAPA.
Popular Front of India, which is now leading the fresh wave of radicalisation in the country, is considered a resurrection of the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
The Uttar Pradesh government had submitted a copy of a front-page story by Siddique Kappan in Thejas, dating back to November 30, 2011, wherein he had claimed that Al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden was a 'martyr'.
58-year-old Abdullah Danish, a terrorist associated with the banned extremist organisation Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was arrested by Delhi Police on Sunday.
The DGP Uttar Pradesh, OP Singh has written a letter to the Home Ministry seeking a ban on the PFI for its criminal activities during the anti-CAA protests in the state
The Jamia protests cannot be disassociated from the violence in Delhi in any manner. There is an insidious design at work here and we have to confront it.