Property seizures jump after UAPA changes in 2019

After the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was amended in 2019, more than 350 properties of terror suspects have been seized by the National Investigation Agency till now, with 215 of them attached in 2023 so far...

The rise in the number of seizures can be attributed to the amendments brought in 2019, when the director general of NIA was given powers to grant approval for seizure of property in cases being investigated by the agency..

Among the properties seized by NIA, 14 belonged to PKEs, including land and part of a house belonging to Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, the US-based founder and lawyer of the banned Sikhs for Justice, in Amritsar and Chandigarh..

On Friday, the agency seized four properties belonging to undertrial Mohd Yaseen, a resident of Poonch in Jammu and belonging to banned terrorist organisation, Tehreek Ul Mujahideen..

Similarly, NIA attached the properties of two Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives who allegedly helped Pakistani terrorist Naveed Jatt escape from police custody from a Srinagar hospital in 2018 by attacking a police team...

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