{"id":177456,"date":"2022-04-04T21:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=177456"},"modified":"2022-04-04T21:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:22:01","slug":"time-to-bid-goodbye-to-afspa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/time-to-bid-goodbye-to-afspa\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to bid goodbye to AFSPA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, the Home Ministry has decided to considerably reduce the number of \u201cdisturbed areas\u201d under the AFSPA in three States. To fulfil that, the April 1st order significantly reduced disturbed areas in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur. Though it is a welcome step, the government does not consider repealing the AFSPA.<\/p>\n<h5>About AFSPA<\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/armed-forces-special-powers-act-afspa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What is the reason for the reduction in disturbed areas?<\/h5>\n<p>The Government\u2019s decision to relax the application of the Act in specific areas is due to a <strong>reduction in violence and administrative reasons<\/strong>. However, the relaxation is not due to a response to the question of whether the Act is essential to security operations in these States or not?<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-afspa-and-the-northeast-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explained: AFSPA and Northeast<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Why does the government have to repeal the AFSPA?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>1) <\/strong>The counterinsurgency campaigns against the Nagas were counterproductive, <strong>2)\u00a0<\/strong>In the court\u2019s view, AFSPA clearly provided the context for some Extra-Judicial killings. While upholding the constitutionality of AFSPA in 1997, the court recommended some changes. Such as reviewing the \u201cdisturbed area\u201d designation every six months. \u00a0<strong>3)\u00a0Justice BP Jeevan Reddy committee<\/strong> recommended repealing AFSPA and suggested inserting the appropriate provisions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uapa-and-the-recent-judgments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Supreme Court had also ruled that the armed forces could not be immune from investigation for excesses committed during the discharge of their duties, even in \u201cdisturbed areas\u201d. Hence, the demand for full repeal should be considered, and the government has to ensure the accountability of the Armed forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the following articles<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTime to bid goodbye to AFSPA\u201d<\/strong> published in\u00a0<strong>The Indian Express<\/strong> on <strong>4th\u00a0April 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFor a full repeal: On AFSPA\u201d<\/strong> published in\u00a0<strong>The Hindu<\/strong> on\u00a0<strong>4th April 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the Home Ministry has decided to considerably reduce the number of \u201cdisturbed areas\u201d under the AFSPA in three States. To fulfil that, the April 1st order significantly reduced disturbed areas in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur. Though it is a welcome step, the government does not consider repealing the AFSPA. About AFSPA Read here:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/time-to-bid-goodbye-to-afspa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to bid goodbye to AFSPA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500,10498],"class_list":["post-177456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704935021},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}