# UAPA amendment allowing individuals to be designated terrorists receives assent

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 8 August 2019 the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, 2019 received presidential assent, allowing the Union to designate individuals as terrorists and widening NIA powers.

## Context

The Home Ministry implements. Courts still hear challenges. [Modi](/people/narendra-modi) is the prime minister of the government that enacted it. He did not sit as every NIA officer. Designation is an executive act, not a completed criminal conviction.

Article 370 the same week is a neighbouring different instrument. Later individual designations are neighbouring later executive acts.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Government of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion) erosion: a completed individual-designation power is a dated due-process cost, distinct from a trial verdict.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an 8 August 2019 presidential assent to a UAPA amendment allowing individual terrorist designations.

Not established: that every later UAPA accused was personally designated by the prime minister, or a unique later conviction coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Parliament passed it. The Home Ministry designates. Courts still review.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies UAPA amendment allowing individuals to be designated terrorists receives assent, not a later speech about UAPA amendment allowing individuals to be designated terrorists receives assent.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. UAPA amendment allowing individuals to be designated terrorists receives assent on 2019-08-08 is not a licence to treat every later Government of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average UAPA amendment allowing individuals to be designated terrorists receives assent into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government piloted the amendment. Parliament passed it. The Home Ministry designates. Courts still review. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-politics-idUSKCN1UQ1J0
- https://www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/15237

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-uapa-amendment-2019