Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad  Maoist links case, has filed a writ petition in Bombay High Court seeking that a provision under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) to brand certain groups as a front for banned or terrorist organisations be quashed as it was bad in law.

The UAPA provides for the declaration of an association as unlawful and for the listing of organisations in the first schedule of the Act as ¿terrorist organisations¿.