POTA faces the axe

The UPA government has finally taken the decision to scrap POTA by repealing it during the monsoon session of the parliament. But some of the provisions of this ‘draconian’ Act will be retained by adding them to already existing laws of the land.

This decision, while in keeping with the promises made in the Common Minimum Programme, is purely symbolic since the POTA was, in any case, going to lapse on October 24, 2004.