Tag: Armed Forces Special Powers Act
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Nagaland under AFSPA Shelter: An Ongoing Saga
By Kartik Pathania, Amity Law School, Delhi. Disturbed area is an area where any magistrate or police officer of the rank of Sub-Inspector or Head Constable of Armed Police have been given the right to fire or otherwise use force even to the point of causing death, against any person who is indulging in any…
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Irom Sharmila and her struggle to repeal AFSPA
By Chandan Mohanty, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. On 2nd November 2000, in Malcom, a town in Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop, by the Assam Rifles, one of the Indian Paramilitary forces operating in the state. This incident became famous as the ‘Malcom Massacre’ which…