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(iv) damage or destruction of any property in India or in a foreign country used or intended to be used for the defence of India or in connection with any other purposes of the Government of India, any State Government or any of their agencies; or

(b) overawes by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force or attempts to do so or causes death of any public functionary or attempts to cause death of any public functionary; or

(a) "public functionary" means the constitutional authorities or any other functionary notified in the Official Gazette by the Central Government as public functionary;

(b) "high quality counterfeit Indian currency" means the counterfeit currency as may be declared after examination by an authorised or notified forensic authority that such currency imitates or compromises with the key security features as specified in the Third Schedule.] (2) The terrorist act includes an act which constitutes an offence within the scope of, and as defined in any of the treaties specified in the Second Schedule.

(iii), (iiia) and (iv). The Ld. Counsel for the Appellant has also stated that an act of causing or attempting to cause the death of a public functionary would also be a terrorist act u/s. 15(1)(b) of the UAPA. Likewise, a person who commits the act provided in s. 15(1)(c) of the UAPA, also commits a terrorist act. He further submits that in the present case, there is no allegation in the charge sheet that the Appellant has committed or conspired to commit a terrorist act as mentioned in s. 15(1)(a) as the same requires the usage of bombs, dynamite or other explosive substances of inflammable substances or firearms or other lethal weapons or poisonous of noxious gases, or other chemicals or by any other substances (whether biological, radioactive, nuclear or otherwise) of a hazardous nature or by any other means of whatever nature.