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Home Minister Amit Shah today said that areas covered under the controversial law Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur will be reduced after decades.
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday welcomed the Centre's decision to reduce the disturbed areas under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the states of Nagaland, Assam and Manipur and said that it shows that peace has returned to the Northeast.
Twenty-three districts of Assam and 15 police stations jurisdictions in Manipur and Nagaland each will no longer be under the law’s purview from April 1.
The MHA has said the decision does not imply that the AFSPA has been completely withdrawn from the three states.
In a significant decision, the Union Government today reduced the disturbed areas under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur after decades.