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Armed Forces Special Powers Act

The more it changes…

Strangers No More is hard reading, backed by the slow despair of most of the stories — a 15-year-old girl shot crossing a barbed wire fence between Bangladesh and West Bengal en route to her own wedding. The fact is that a legacy passed down by the British has continued 70 years after Independence with little or no mitigation of brutality and no room for the people of the North- east in the heart of India... A review

AFSPA’s acid test?

The propriety of “releasing” to the media a petition filed in court even before cognisance has been taken of it…

Army, AFSPA and the apex court

The Supreme Court recently issued directions that irrespective of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) being in force, an…