NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today said it would hear on October 13 a batch of petitions, including one of the Centre, relating to the Government’s decisions to ban Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from time to time.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud decided to segregate the writ petitions challenging provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act from those related to the ban on SIMI and fixed the former for hearing separately on November 9.
The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal, headed by Delhi High Court judge Justice Suresh Kait, in 2014 had confirmed the Centre’s decision to extend by another five years, that is till 2019, the ban on SIMI.
The banned outfit has filed appeals in the apex court against every ban order passed by the tribunal from time to time since 2001. (AGENCIES
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