Supreme Court extends ban on SIMI

The ban on SIMI, scheduled to expire in a fortnight, was on Thursday extended indefinitely by the Supreme Court while postponing the September 24 hearing on the Centre's petition, which challenged an order of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal lifting the ban. ( Watch ) This order is expected to give the ministry of home affairs (MHA) the much needed relief as it had virtually goofed up in presenting vital evidence before the Tribunal leading it to declare that there was no sufficient evidence to sustain the ban on SIMI. However, the ministry had immediately moved the apex court seeking a stay on the Tribunal's order apprehending that if it did not remain banned under the anti-terror law, its members might have to be released. It had later supplemented its hurriedly drafted petition with a hard-hitting affidavit detailing SIMI's communal and anti-national activities that posed grave danger to the peace, integrity and secular fabric of India. When SIMI countered these with accusations of victimisation and wanted to test the evidence presented by MHA, the court had extended the ban on the outfit.

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