NEW DELHI: The Nagaland government on Sunday said that the new committee will be institutionalized to see the withdrawal of the Act [AFSPA) controversial armed forces in the state.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by the minister of house Amit Shah with the main ministers of Nagaland and Assam on December 23.
The committee will be chaired by the MHA Central Secretary for the Northeast and including the Secretary of the Head and DGP Nagaland, among others.
Foreign Minister Amit Shah held a meeting to discuss the current scenario in Nagaland on December 23.
The meeting was attended …
https://t.co/29GByKCz27- Ani (@ani) 1640508674000IT will submit the report within 45 days and the decision to be revoked within 45 days and the decision to revoke AFSPA will be taken based on recommendations from panel members, Nagale government said in a statement.
“Discussed at the meeting that the investigation court will begin the disciplinary process of the army unit and army personnel, which is directly involved in the incident and the actions of Otin will be taken soon,” said the statement.
Previously, the Nagaland assembly unanimously adopted a resolution that demanded that the center revoke AFSPA from the northeast and specifically from the state “so as to strengthen sustainable efforts to find peaceful political settlement for dragon political problems”.
Read the JSPA area has shrunk in the years of Delhi: while the killing of civilians in Nagaland by the army in the case of the wrong identity has added fuel to the old demand for the Northeast to revoke the Special Armed Forces (AFSPA), the geographical area where Applicable action has continued to shrink it14 civilians shot dead by a security focus in the village of Oting District Mon on December 4 in a failed anti-rebellion operation.
The incident caused crying by civilians and the right activists for the revocation of “Draconian Law”.
The main ministers of Nagaland and Meghalaya also searched for AFSPA revocation.
(With input from the agency)
Panel to see AFSPA withdrawal: Nagaland Govt
