Authors:
Balireddy Kanaka Lakshmi, V. Vijay Lakshmi, Vallimireddy Abhinav Deep Dora, B. N. S. Sriram
Addresses:
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College of Law, Andhra University, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Vignan Institute of Law, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Abstract:
The 2019 Indian amendment provided an executive, list-based method to identify “terrorists” under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. This process is like those in the US, EU, UK, Pakistan, Canada, and Australia for terrorist/sanctions listings, but with different thresholds, procedures, oversight, and scale. In 2023, India declared 57 terrorists under UAPA, a lesser number than the US and EU sanctions lists, but significant in the Indian constitutional context due to poor exacta procedural safeguards and post-decisional review. In 2019, India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA), was amended to empower the Fourth Schedule to label people "terrorists" and freeze their assets without criminal conviction. It discusses India's statutory framework and implementing procedures for individual designation, summarises statistics on the number of individuals designated to date, and compares India's model to foreign listing regimes like the US' Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) regime under Executive Order 13224, the EU's terrorist list under Common Position 2001/931/CFSP, and the UK's Terrorist As It compares India's system to international due-process standards and finds issues with unclear criteria, insufficient openness, and post-decisional review. It advocates reforms in national security and fundamental rights.
Keywords: Counter‑Terrorism Tool; Domestic Designation Mechanisms; Violation of Rights; National Security; Post-Decisional Review; Constitutional Challenges; Fundamental Rights.
Received on: 27/02/2025, Revised on: 21/05/2025, Accepted on: 07/09/2025, Published on: 03/01/2026
DOI: 10.64091/ATISL.2026.000275
AVE Trends in Intelligent Social Letters, 2026 Vol. 3 No. 1 , Pages: 37–45