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By J. Venkatesan
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 21. The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, tonight promulgated an ordinance to repeal the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), just a month before it was to lapse. The POTA came into force from October 24, 2001 and was to have remained in force for three years. The President promulgated another ordinance to amend the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to effectively deal with terrorists, terrorist outfits and other facets of terrorism. It bans 32 terrorist organisations that were banned under POTA. The Central POTA Review Committee has been given one year to review all the pending cases and take a decision whether any prima facie case exists for proceeding under the POTA. If necessary, more such committees would be constituted to ensure that all cases were disposed of within one year. These committees have been vested with powers of civil courts to enable them to summon records and documents from State Governments to review the cases. In the last three years of its existence, 217 cases were being investigated under POTA and 116 of them were being tried by POTA special courts. Now the special courts have been dispensed with The review committees will henceforth review all such cases.
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