PIL seeks ban on Sanatan Sanstha

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking ban on Sanatan Sanatan, the Hindu right-wing body whose activists allegedly carried out blasts in various parts of Maharashtra and Goa.

Filed by a few social activists from Raigad and other parts of Maharashtra, the PIL alleges that the organisation “indulges in terrorist activities” and “has waged war against the country”.
A division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice Roshan Dalvi has asked government to file reply and kept the PIL for hearing on January 12, 2012.

“In Serbia, Sanatan Sanstha is already declared a terrorist organisation and banned,” says the PIL, while contending that the organisation practises principles of Ericksonian Hypnosis, a technique whereby individuals as well as masses in the society can be hypnotised.

In September, the state requested the Union to include Sanatan Sanstha in the category of banned terrorist organisations.