
On 24 March 2023, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court overruled two of its earlier judgments from 2011. The earlier judgments held that it is not a criminal offence to merely be a 'member' of an association declared 'unlawful' under the UAPA. But now it is. Join us for a brief explainer of the judgment in Arup Bhuyan v. State of Assam (2023).