Centre sets up tribunal to adjudicate to ban Jamaat-e-Islami J&K, JKLF

The Centre has set up a tribunal to adjudicate if there exists sufficient cause to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JeL) and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front-Yasin Malik (JKLF-Y) faction. In a notification, Home Ministry said, the tribunal will be headed by Justice Chander Shekhar of the Delhi High



Court. 

The decision to constitute a tribunal has been taken by the Ministry exercising the powers conferred under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Both the organisations were declared as unlawful associations by the centre.