Click to play videoNew Delhi: A tribunal of the Delhi High Court on Tuesday lifted its two-year ban on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as opposed to the Supreme Court which had once said that it is an organisation with a "secessionist movement."
The High Court was hearing a challenge from SIMI against a February 7, 2008 notification from the Home Ministry, declaring it an “unlawful association indulging in activities prejudicial to the security of the country” and with “potential of disturbing peace and communal harmony and disrupting the secular fabric of the country”.
The Centre had first declared SIMI an “unlawful association” on September 27, 2001 and then consecutively in September 2003 and February 2006.
The tribunal also referred to three notifications issued by the Centre after the Babri Masjid demolition when three political organisations were banned but the tribunal quashed two of them.
"The notification should tell what leads you to declare SIMI a banned organisation," Justice Geeta Mittal said.
SIMI’s lawyer Trideep Pais told CNN-IBN that it is a good development and the “notification to ban the organisation was wrong.”
“In real terms the notification by the Government was wrong because they had nothing to support it. It is not a terror organisation and the Government has nothing to prove it. In fact the Government cannot even prove that it is an unlawful association,” Pais added.
Meanwhile, speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN former president of SIMI Shahi Badra Filahi said, “We are happy with the development. We are thankful to God for this. We will open our office first and will also ask for compensation from the Government.”
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