Manipur extends AFSPA in Hill Districts for 6 months

• The Manipur government has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in hill districts for another six months.
• Effective October 1, the Act will extend to the entire state, except 19 police station limits in seven valley districts.
• Valley areas are exempted from the Act’s provisions.
• The 1958 law allows the Army and Central Armed Police Forces in “disturbed areas” to arrest or kill anyone acting in contravention of law, search premises without a warrant, and grant protection from prosecution and legal suits without Union government’s sanction.