Ban on Yasin Malik-led JKLF under UAPA extended for five years

The JLKF-Y was earlier declared an “unlawful association” under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act or UAPA on March 22, 2019.

Yasin Malik is currently lodged in Tihar prison serving life imprisonment in a terror funding case. He was sentenced in May 2022 for raising, receiving and collecting funds domestically and abroad through various illegal channels, including hawala, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, and conspiring to cause disruption in the Kashmir valley by pelting stones on the security forces, systematically burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against the Indian government.

A notification issued by MHA on late Friday evening stated, “The Central government is of the opinion that if the unlawful activities of the JKLF-Y are not curbed and controlled immediately, it will take the opportunity to – escalate its subversive activities including attempt to carve out a separate state out of the territory of Union of India by destabilising the government established by law; continue advocating the secession of Jammu and Kashmir; and propagate anti-national and separatist sentiments prejudicial to the territorial integrity and security of the country”.