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The Assam authorities has banned each forms of extremist and “jihadist” lit associated with outlawed extremist organisations by invoking Section 98 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) of 2023.
The December 3 notification issued by the State’s Political (A) Department prohibits the “publication, printing, circulation, distribution, sale, exhibition, possession and storage, whether carnal oregon digital, of immoderate extremist oregon jihadi literature, documents, materials, oregon integer content” associated with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), Ansar-al-Islam/pro-AQIS, and akin banned outfits.
The bid followed a connection from the Assam Police and observations from the Judicial Department, informing that specified lit threatens India’s sovereignty, interior security, communal harmony, and nationalist order. The notification underscored the presumption of these organisations arsenic violent groups nether Section 35 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The authorities noted that quality reports, cyber-patrolling inputs and caller investigations by the Assam Police and its Special Task Force bespeak continued circulation and possession of extremist publications successful people and integer formats. The banned contented reportedly glorifies convulsive jihad, providing ideological indoctrination, offering operational guidance, and encouraging recruitment into extremist networks.
The notification besides stated that specified contented violates respective ineligible provisions, including Section 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (objectionable content) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act (transmission of objectionable physics material). It cited Sections 98 and 99 of the BNSS, empowering the State to bid the contiguous forfeiture of specified content.
The Judicial Department said the continued availability of specified propaganda risks radicalising susceptible younker and aggravating societal discord. The authorities emphasised that promoting enmity betwixt groups, disrupting nationalist integration, oregon insulting spiritual beliefs — offences nether Sections 196, 197 and 299 of BNS — necessitate strict preventive action.
