The Delhi high court on Thursday dismissed a plea by Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) challenging the Centre’s decision to immediately ban the organisation under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said the government has sufficient material to immediately ban IRF. On November 17, 2016, the Union home ministry imposed an immediate ban on the organisation under UAPA. It said the immediate ban was imposed without giving them any show cause notice. It had said that it was limiting its plea to the immediate ban and not raising the issue of freezing of its accounts under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.

Source: Hindustan Times March 16, 2017 07:30 UTC