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AFSPA

Quick Points to remember

• AFSPA stands for Armed forces special powers act.
• AFSPA was enacted in the year 1958 in the North East.
• AFSPA is enacted only when a state or region is declared as “disturbed”
by the central government.
• Some special powers are granted to the armed forces under this act.

Introduction
AFSPA (Armed forces special powers act) is a name given to the collective acts of
the Parliament of India. The Armed forces special powers ordinance was first
propagated by the British on 15 August 1942 in order to suppress the Quit India
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movement. In order to deal with the internal national security situation that incited
because of the partition in 1947, the central govt modeled on the same structure, the
Bengal disturbed areas ordinance, the Assam disturbed areas ordinance, the East
Bengal disturbed areas ordinance and the united provinces disturbed areas
ordinance

An area can be declared as disturbed by the central govt. under the following
circumstances:

The administration and local police fail in tackling local issue

Return of centrak security forces has led to the return of miscreants or erosion of the
“peace dividend”

The unrest and instability in the state is has scaled beyond the managing capacity of
the local authorities

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