{"id":122856,"date":"2022-10-08T11:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=122856"},"modified":"2022-10-08T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T06:13:42","slug":"goi-named-delhi-hc-judge-justice-dinesh-kumar-sharma-as-presiding-officer-of-uapa-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/goi-named-delhi-hc-judge-justice-dinesh-kumar-sharma-as-presiding-officer-of-uapa-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"GoI named Delhi HC Judge Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma as Presiding Officer Of UAPA Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>GoI named Delhi HC Judge Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma as Presiding Officer Of UAPA Tribunal:<\/strong> The government of India has appointed Justice\u00a0<strong>Dinesh Kumar Sharma<\/strong>\u00a0of the Delhi High Court as the presiding officer of the tribunal for the\u00a0<strong>Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),<\/strong>\u00a0related to the ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates. Once an organisation is banned under the provisions of UAPA, a tribunal is set up by the government to adjudicate whether there are sufficient grounds for the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The office memorandum, issued by the Department of Justice in the Law Ministry on October 3, mentioned that Justice Sharma\u2019s time as head of the UAPA tribunal will count as \u201cactual service\u201d.&nbsp;<strong>Chief Justice S.C. Sharma<\/strong>&nbsp;of the Delhi High Court appointed Justice Sharma to head the tribunal that will examine the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to procedure, the Union Home Ministry requests the Law Ministry to name a sitting judge of a High Court to be the presiding officer, and the Law Ministry, in turn, requests the Chief Justice of the concerned High Court to recommend a name. The Home Ministry will now issue a formal notification naming Justice Sharma as presiding officer.<\/li><li>On September 28, the Ministry of Home Affairs had issued a notification declaring \u201cthe PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts as an unlawful association with immediate effect\u201d.<\/li><li>The National Investigation Agency as well as the Enforcement Directorate had alleged that PFI was engaged in raising and collecting funds from abroad and transferring them to India through \u201cclandestine and illegal channels\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoI named Delhi HC Judge Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma as Presiding Officer Of UAPA Tribunal: The government of India has appointed Justice\u00a0Dinesh Kumar Sharma\u00a0of the Delhi High Court as the presiding officer of the tribunal for the\u00a0Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),\u00a0related to the ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates. 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