SIMI

The Centre-appointed tribunal that examined the ninth renewal of the prohibition on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act maintained the ban on SIMI.

The founder of Hamas, Sheikh Yaseen addressed SIMI's "Ikhwan Conference" in Kanpur in 1999.

During interrogation, Faizan Sheikh confessed to planning to avenge the 2006 encounter of eight SIMI terrorists.

Hanif Sheikh had been absconding for more than 22 years in a case of sedition and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act registered against him at the New Friends Colony Police Station in 2001.

Saquib Nachan was convicted in connection with 3 terror blasts that rocked Mumbai in 2002-03 and was freed from jail in 2017.

Supreme Court of India refused an urgent hearing on a batch of pleas against a ban imposed on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)

In last week's edition, ISIS magazine 'Voice of Khurasan's sympathised with SIMI and PFI members and called them innocents.

The Centre pointed out that every new recruit of SIMI is administered an oath which asserts that they would operate for 'establishment of Islamic system'. The affidavit was submitted in response to a petition contesting the 2019 notification that extended the outfit's ban under the UAPA.

Ahmadullah Siddiqi claims he left SIMI when it became extremist, but he is associated with anti-India Islamist groups in the USA

SIMI terrorist Safdar Nagori does not believe in the Indian Constitution. He has said that only Quran matters to him.