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Home Ministry puts Assam Rifles notification on hold
Why In news?
- The Home Ministry has kept in abeyance its order that empowered the Assam Rifles.
- Order allows Assam Rifles deployed along the Myanmar border, to arrest anyone and search a place without a warrant in the border districts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram.
- The notification was withheld after Opposition parties moved an adjournment motion against the order in the Assam Assembly.
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What notification says:
- An officer of the rank corresponding to that of the lowest rank of members of the Assam Rifles would have the powers under the CrPC.
- It is not clear why the notification included Assam, as the State does not share its border with Myanmar.
Power of Assam Rifles:
- The Assam Rifles has power to detain anyone where Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is in place.
- The Assam Rifles, a CRPF, is under the administrative control of the Home Ministry and the operational control of the Army.
- Assam Rifles Act was amended in 2006, the powers under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) earlier available to it under the Assam Rifles Act, 1941, were not restored.
Source
The Hindu