{"id":110029,"date":"2023-10-01T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=110029"},"modified":"2023-10-01T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:35:04","slug":"afspa-has-been-taken-away-from-four-districts-in-assam-while-it-has-been-extended-to-four-other-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=110029","title":{"rendered":"AFSPA has been taken away from four districts in Assam, while it has been extended to four other districts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"stryhdtp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109787\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/logo_new-2-1-1-4-1-3-1-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"40\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">O<\/span>n Sunday, the Director General of Police, G.P. Singh, announced that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) would be extended for a period of six months in four districts of Assam: Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sivasagar, and Charaideo. These areas, located in northern Assam, have a long history of being strongholds of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110031\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/AFSPA has been taken away from four districts in Assam, while it has been extended to four other districts.\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110031 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/indian-army-2-780x470-1.webp\" alt=\"AFSPA \" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/indian-army-2-780x470-1.webp 780w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/indian-army-2-780x470-1-300x181.webp 300w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/indian-army-2-780x470-1-768x463.webp 768w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/indian-army-2-780x470-1-750x452.webp 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>AFSPA has been taken away from four districts in Assam, <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This marks the continuation of the \u201cdisturbed area\u201d notification which has been in effect in Assam since 1990. Last year, the Centre removed the \u201cdisturbed area\u201d notification from all but nine districts in the state, and in March, the Centre removed it from an additional Assam district. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"stryhdtp\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Just last month, the state government proposed that the \u201cdisturbed area\u201d notification be removed from the remaining eight districts with effect from October 1st, due to \u201cthe significant improvement in the security situation of the State and subsequent accelerated development.\u201d AFSPA grants the Indian Armed Forces special powers to maintain public order in these \u201cdisturbed areas\u201d declared by the Union Home Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the Director General of Police, G.P. Singh, announced that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) would be extended for a period of six months in four districts of Assam: Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sivasagar, and Charaideo. These areas, located in northern Assam, have a long history of being strongholds of the United Liberation Front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[14281,14282,14284,14283],"class_list":["post-110029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assam","tag-afspa-has-been-taken-away-from-four","tag-districts-in-assam","tag-extended-to-four-other-districts","tag-while-it-has-been"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}