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Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday upheld the ban imposed on Deendar Anjuman, a religious outfit based in Hyderabad.
Justice B Sudershan Reddy, while dismissing the writ petition filed by the banned organisation, upheld the Central government's decision to declare Deendar Anjuman an unlawful association with effect from April 28, 2001.
Rejecting the contentions of the petitioner as misconceived, the judge found that "the activities of the petitioner association have been taken into consideration by the government" before imposing the ban.
Deendar Anjuman had argued that the grounds of ban were none other than the penal charges awaiting trial before competent criminal courts. Therefore, imposition of the ban on the same set of reasons was impermissible.
The Central government defended its action and said that it came to the conclusion that Deendar Anjuman's activities must be stopped after it was found that the organisation was responsible for destruction of religious places in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
The ban on Deendar Anjuman was imposed after its activists were charged with engineering 12 bomb blasts in churches and other places of worship in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa last year.
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