India, July 15 -- The Delhi high court has held that engaging in social media or digital activities for disseminating radical information and ideology constitutes a punishable offence under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

A bench of justices Subramanian Prasad and Harish Vaidynathan Shankar made this observation in a July 7 ruling, released later, while dealing with a plea filed by Lashkar -e- Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF) overground worker Arsalan Feroze Ahenger against trial court's September 2024 order refusing to release him on bail.

Ahenger was booked by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under various provisions of UAPA, including Section 17 (punishment for raising funds for terrorist act), Section...