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Weapons of Mass Destruction Bill

August 3 , 2022 845 days 543 0
  • The Parliament passed a bill which seeks to ban funding of weapons of mass destruction.
  • The bill known as “The Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022”.
  • It also empowers the Centre to freeze, seize or attach financial assets and economic resources of people engaged in such activities.
  • This Act passed in 2005 and it only banned manufacture of weapons of mass destruction.
  • The amendment bill seeks to insert a new Section 12A in the existing law.

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