{"id":201,"date":"2004-01-21T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/21\/pota-panels-verdict-on-jan-23\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T14:30:26","slug":"pota-panels-verdict-on-jan-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/21\/pota-panels-verdict-on-jan-23\/","title":{"rendered":"POTA Panel&#8217;s Verdict on Jan. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a81'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Central Review Committee on Prevention of Terrorism Act <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2004\/01\/21\/stories\/2004012104501100.htm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">will give its decision<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> on January 23 on a case regarding whether the Committee can intervene in the courts and decide if a POTA case should be withdrawn.&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The attorney for the Central Government argued that, especially in light of the recent Amendments to POTA, the Committee has the power to withdraw POTA cases if it feels no prima facie case exists.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The attorney for the State, Tamil Nadu, countered &#x201C;that once a State Government accorded sanction for prosecution of a case under POTA, the committee could not review the correctness of the sanction.&#x201D;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Read earlier articles on <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/19#a21\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">this specific case<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> and on the <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/01#a43\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">POTA Amendment Bill<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Review Committee on Prevention of Terrorism Act will give its decision on January 23 on a case regarding whether the Committee can intervene in the courts and decide if a POTA case should be withdrawn.&nbsp; The attorney for the Central Government argued that, especially in light of the recent Amendments to POTA, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}