Jharkhand HC sets aside ban on PFI on technical grounds

The Jharkhand High Court has set aside a state government notification banning the Popular Front of India (PFI) on technical grounds.

The bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay yesterday set aside February 21, 2018, order of the Jharkhand government, saying it had not been published in the Gazette.

The Jharkhand government had banned the PFI on account of its members being "internally influenced" by terror outfit ISIS.

PFI member Abdul Badud had challenged the order banning the organization.

The bench also quashed FIRs registered by the police against the PFI, an Islamic organization.

The bench, however, rejected the petitioner's contention to prevent the state government from banning any organization under Section 16 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, saying the state has the power to do so.

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