The Supreme Court instructed the High Courts to consider writ petitions contesting the 2019 Amendment to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, but declined to consider petitions contesting the revisions. The revisions allow the Union government to declare certain people terrorists. Only organizations were eligible to be designated as such under the 1967 Act. The appeal stated that the amendments' "conferring of such discretionary, unfettered and unbound" power upon the Union government is the "antithesis" of Article 14 of the Indian Constitution.