Madras High Court dismisses Vaiko's challenge to LTTE ban under UAPA

The case references alleged genocide and displacement of Tamil populations in Sri Lanka, with over 350,000 killed and over 1 million displaced according to petitioner's claims.

In the long shadow of a civil war that ended nearly two decades ago, the Madras High Court has quietly closed a legal door that had stood ajar for thirteen years. By ruling that MDMK leader Vaiko lacked the standing to challenge the government's ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the bench affirmed a principle as old as law itself: that proximity to a cause does not confer the right to litigate it. The judgment leaves intact a counter-terrorism designation first imposed in 1992, and with it, the unresolved grief of a diaspora that continues to contest the terms by which its history i

Madras High Court dismisses Vaiko's challenge to LTTE ban under UAPA

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