The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Centre’s decision to ban Deendar Anjuman, a Muslim outfit in southern India, for carrying out anti-national activities.

“Your professed activities may be something but your general activities are different,” a Bench, headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat, observed while dismissing a petition by Deendar Anjuman challenging the decision of a Special Tribunal justifying the ban.

A tribunal, headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal of the Delhi High Court, on February 27 had upheld the Government’s fourth notification extending the ban on the outfit accused of attacking churches to foment Hindu-Christian animosity.

The Bench noted the findings of the tribunal that the organisation was actively involved in anti-national and anti-religious activities in Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The Karnataka-based organisation started in 1924 and was banned for the first time in 2001for two years after it was accused of engineering blasts in various cities in south India. Since then, the Centre has been extending the ban every two years and the last notification issued on August 29, 2007 was the fourth ban imposed on the outfit.

The organisation had filed an appeal submitting that there was no fresh evidence to show that it was involved in anti-national activities and many people from other religious communities had deposed in its favour.