{"id":261628,"date":"2025-03-28T00:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=261628"},"modified":"2025-03-28T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:54:10","slug":"afspa-withdrawn-from-dibrugarh-only-3-dists-of-assam-now-under-its-purview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/afspa-withdrawn-from-dibrugarh-only-3-dists-of-assam-now-under-its-purview\/","title":{"rendered":"AFSPA withdrawn from Dibrugarh, only 3 dists of Assam now under its purview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, 27 Mar:<\/strong> The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been withdrawn from Assam&#8217;s Dibrugarh district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a press conference, Sarma said it is now in force in only three districts of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The law empowers security forces to conduct operations anywhere and arrest anyone without a prior warrant. It also gives a certain level of immunity to the security forces if an operation goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We had requested union Home Minister Amit Shah to lift the disturbed areas tag from Dibrugarh as we are planning to develop it as the second capital of the state,&#8221; Sarma said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He heard our request and a notification has been issued by the Centre in this regard,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;AFSPA will now be in force in Tinsukia, Sivasagar and Charaideo districts,&#8221; the CM said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The AFSPA has been withdrawn from 32 districts of the state and we hope that it will be soon withdrawn from the remaining three districts as well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state was declared a &#8216;disturbed area&#8217; under the AFSPA on the intervening night of 27-28 November, 1990, in the wake of violence by the ULFA, and it has been extended every six months since then on the recommendation of the state government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Sarma assumed office in 2021, the AFSPA is being gradually withdrawn. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, 27 Mar: The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been withdrawn from Assam&#8217;s Dibrugarh district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference, Sarma said it is now in force in only three districts of the state. The law empowers security forces to conduct operations anywhere and arrest anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}