<h1>Maintainability challenge to five-year ban under Section 5 UAPA over whether orders are amenable to writ review</h1> The high court reserved judgment on the maintainability of a writ challenging a five-year government ban, upheld by an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act tribunal. The government argued the petition is not maintainable because the tribunal was presided over by a sitting high court judge and thus its orders are not amenable to Article 226 review, invoking Article 227 principles; the organisation countered that the tribunal, constituted under Section 5 UAPA with separate funding and procedures, functions as an independent body and its orders are subject to writ jurisdiction. The ban proscribes the organisation and affiliates for alleged terrorist links and prompted nationwide arrests in 2022.