The Supreme Court dismissed a plea challenging the five-year extension of the ban on SIMI. The UAPA tribunal upheld the Centre’s decision, stating SIMI still pursued extremist goals. The organisation has been banned in India since 2001
Jail authorities say though no one saw the drone landing on the jail premises, the prima facie it appears the unmanned aerial device might be of children who were playing with it near the prison
A court in Madhya Pradesh's Indore sentenced an activist of the banned outfit SIMI to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2008 case for possession of inflammatory pamphlets.
