Judicial support of combating terrorism in India

The paper examines the legal basis of combating terrorism in India. The authors began their study from the constitutional foundations of the security of the individual, society and state. Special attention is paid to covering the experts debates in the Constitutional Assembly on the measure of the validity of the infringement of personal liberties in the interests of National security. Also the authors area of research was the problem of the dividing of powers in the designated area between the center and the provinces (States and Union territories). The authors are quite fundamentally analyzed all strata of Indian anti-terrorism legislation. In the research work disassembled the main stages of anti-terrorism legislation development and the basic normative legal acts. Didn’t escape from the authors attention the mechanisms used by the Indian authorities to combat terrorism. In particular, the prohibition (the legal prohibition of activities) individual public organizations and political parties through the recognition of their as a terrorist structures.

India, Indian legacy, terrorism, antiterrorism, combating terrorism, judicial support of antiterrorism