At the most, Raut can be said to be a member of the CPI (Maoist) but no covert or overt terrorist act has been attributed to him and NIA has placed no evidence to show that he was involved in recruiting persons to the banned outfit, said a division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Sharmila Deshmukh
The bench observed that the appellant can at the most be said to be a member of CPI (Maoist) and therefore provisions of UAPA under sections 13 and 38 are attracted and the same provide maximum punishment of seven and ten years, respectively.
Observing that the material against forest rights activist Mahesh Raut couldn’t lead to a prima-facie inference that he had indulged in a ‘terrorist act’ under Section 15 of the Unlawful Activities.
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