NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday set up a tribunal for adjudicating whether or not there is sufficient reason to continue the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a fortnight after it extended for five years the proscription of the terror group that was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
While extending the ban on the LTTE, the home ministry had said the group’s continued violent and disruptive activities are prejudicial to the integrity and sovereignty of India and it continues to adopt a strong anti-India posture and also continues to pose a grave threat to the security of Indian nationals.
Such a tribunal is constituted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to give an opportunity to the banned entity to present its case but is usually a no-show.
India had banned the LTTE after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991. Since then the ban imposed on the group has been extended after every five years. (AGENCIES)
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