Tribunal set up to adjudicate ban on Meitei extremist groups
Live MintMinistry of Home Affairs has constituted the Unlawful Activities Tribunal consisting of Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi, Judge of the Gauhati High Court, to adjudicate whether there is sufficient cause for declaring the Meitei Extremist Organizations of Manipur along with all their factions, wings and front organizations as "unlawful associations". "In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section of section 5 of the Unlawful Activities Act, 1967, the Central Government hereby constitutes "The Unlawful Activities Tribunal" consisting of Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi, Judge of the Gauhati High Court, for the purpose of adjudicating whether or not there is sufficient cause for declaring the Meitei Extremist Organizations of Manipur, viz the Peoples' Liberation Army generally known as PLA, and its political wing, the Revolutionary Peoples' Front, the United National Liberation Front and its armed wing, the Manipur Peoples' Army, the Peoples' Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak and its armed wing, the "Red Army", the Kangleipak Communist Party and its armed wing, also called the "Red Army", the Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup, the Coordination Committee and the Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak along with all their factions, wings and front organizations as 'Unlawful Associations'," the notification read. The MHA on November 13 declared several Meitei extremist organisations, their factions, wings and front organisations as unlawful associations under Unlawful Activities Act for a period of five years. These organisations are the Peoples' Liberation army and its political wing; the Revolutionary Peoples' Front ; the United National Liberation Front and its armed wing the Manipur Peoples' Army ; the Peoples' Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak and its armed wing; the Red Army; the Kangleipak Communist Party and its armed wing also called the Red Army; the Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup ; the Coordination Committee ; and the Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak along with all their factions, wings and front organisations. The MHA then clarified that the action was based on inputs that all the Meitei extremist organisations-- the PLA and its political wing RPF, the UNLF and its armed wing MPA), the PREPAK and its armed wing "Red Army", the KCP and its armed wing also called the "Red Army", the KYKL, the CorCom and the ASUK-- have as their professed aim of establishing an independent nation by secession of Manipur from India through armed struggle and to incite indigenous people of Manipur for such secession.
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