Srinagar : As many as 255 cases were registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act-1967 in Jammu & Kashmir during 2019, NCB report reveals.
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Data for the year 2019 released by the National Crime Records Bureau also show that sedition cases rose even as the category under which they come — ‘Offences Against the State’, which includes charges under the UAPA and Official Secrets Act (OSA) — saw a steep fall of 11.3 per cent from the year before.
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Under the UAPA, 1,226 cases were registered in 2019 — compared to 1,182 in 2018 and 901 in 2017. The maximum UAPA cases were seen in Manipur (306), followed by 270 in Tamil Nadu, and 255 in J&K.
