Repeal AFSPA : MP
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 25 2015:
Inner Manipur MP Dr Th Meinya today raised the issue of repealing the Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958 in Parliament.
Raising the issue, Dr Meinya said, "I am supported by the fact that the Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee appointed in 2005 recommended the repeal of the Act" .
Again, the report of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2007), headed by former Union Minister, Dr M Veerappa Moily, had recommended the repeal of the Act.
At the same time, the present Vice-President of the country Hamid Ansari as Chairman of the Working Group on Confidence-Building Measures in Jammu & Kashmir had also recommended repeal of the Act, he pointed out.
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"Lately, once again, the Justice JS Verma Committee, set up to suggest amendments to laws relating to crimes against women, has recommended and I quote : "There is an imminent need to review the continuance of the AFSPA and AFSPA-like legal protocols in internal conflict areas as soon as possible," he said.
"So, now, time has come to revisit AFSPA.
I urge upon the Union Government, particularly, the Home Ministry to repeal this AFSPA, 1958 immediately," he said.