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Close Encounters of the False Kind
Kishalay Bhattacharjee | OPEN, The Magazine | New Delhi
India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) discovered that Assam had not reported over 60 killings to the Commission over a ten-month odd period. According to NHRC rules, every death in police action must be reported to it within 48 hours.
One of India's most controversial legal provisions is one that shields security personnel from prosecution for such killings: the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Granting immunity to armed forces engaged in anti-insurgency operations, it was first deployed as an emergency measure in the Northeast in the 1950s and is still in force despite loud civil society protests against it.
The judicial commission on the Manipur killings set up by the Supreme Court held an Army major responsible for one of the killings. Major D Sreeram was awarded India's highest peacetime gallantry medal in 2009 (one of only two serving Ashok Chakra winners) for the same ‘encounter' in which cousins Gobind and Nobo Meitei were killed in Imphal's Langol area on 4 April 2009.
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