{"id":8763,"date":"2022-10-01T07:43:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T03:27:59","slug":"armed-forces-special-powers-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/armed-forces-special-powers-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The AFSPA will be extended for six months in nine districts &#8212; Dimapur, Niuland, Chumoukedima, Mon, Kiphire, Noklak, Phek, Peren, and Zunheboto &#8212; and 16 police stations areas in four other districts &#8212; Kohima, Mokokchung, Longleng, and Wokha of Nagaland.<\/li>\n<li>It has been extended in certain parts of five other districts of the two northeastern states to facilitate the armed forces to continue the anti-insurgency operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>AFSPA:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a law which gives armed forces (Army, the Air Force and Central paramilitary forces) the special powers and immunity to maintain public order in \u201cdisturbed areas\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>When is it applied?<\/strong>It can be applied only after an area has been declared \u201cdisturbed\u201d under section 2 of the act.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is a Disturbed area?\u00a0<\/strong>An area can be considered to be disturbed due to differences or disputes among different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who declares an area as disturbed?\u00a0<\/strong>Section (3) of AFSPA empowers the governor of the state\/Union territory to issue an official notification declaring the state or a region within as a \u201cdisturbed area\u201d, after which the centre can decide whether to send in armed forces.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018special powers\u2019 of armed forces under Section 4 are:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Power to use force, including open fire\u2019\u00a0at an individual if he violates laws which prohibit (a) the assembly of five or more persons; or (b) carrying of weapons.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u2018power to arrest\u2019\u00a0without a warrant; (Under section 5 the Armed Forces have to hand over the arrested person to the nearest Police Station \u201cwith the\u00a0least possible delay\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u2018power to seize and search\u2019\u00a0without any warrant any premise.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These armed forces are immune from prosecution\u00a0unless Union Government provides sanction to the prosecuting agencies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Centre-extends-Armed-Forces-(Special-Powers)-Act-in-Nagaland-and-Arunachal-Pradesh-for-6-months&amp;id=448628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Forces Act,1958 is an act of Parliament of India that grants special powers to Indian Armed Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}