Updated On: 25 March, 2023 07:54 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
A bench of Justices M R Shah, C T Ravikumar and Sanjay Karol, while deciding a reference made by a two-judge bench, held that mere membership of banned organisation will make a person criminal and liable to be prosecuted under provisions of UAPA

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The Supreme Court on Friday held as bad in law its 2011 verdicts that ruled that mere membership of a banned organisation would not make a person criminal unless he resorts to violence or incites people to violence.
A bench of Justices M R Shah, C T Ravikumar and Sanjay Karol, while deciding a reference made by a two-judge bench, held that mere membership of banned organisation will make a person criminal and liable to be prosecuted under provisions of UAPA.