India extends LTTE ban

India extended the ban on LTTE declaring that it continues to adopt a strong anti- India posture and pose a grave threat to the security of its citizens.

The Indian Home Ministry announced that the activities of the LTTE are detrimental to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and there is a continuing need to control all such separatist activities by all possible means.

"The LTTE continues to adopt a strong anti-India posture as also continues to pose a grave threat to the security of Indian nationals, it is necessary to declare LTTE as an 'unlawful association' with immediate effect," the Home Ministry notification issued by joint secretary Dharmendra Sharma said. The LTTE was banned in India in the aftermath of the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.