Congress attacked the ruling BJP led government and stated that if law and order has improved why AFSPA is extended. Congress has promised ...

These questions won't be asked with any seriousness because AFSPA allows them to be brushed under the carpet. Which is why instead of engag...

The army said the evidence collected by the inquiry prima-facie indicated that the three unidentified terrorists killed in operation Amship...

"The Indian Army has to, in given circumstances, take quick decisions which cannot be dissected later on like an ordinary murder appeal."

SC in its verdict on July 8 last year had given the state police liberty to probe the role of armed forces in alleged encounter cases in ar...

Singh said AFSPA was only an enabling act and the Army was quick in taking action whenever there was any mistake on the part of the soldier...

He said the Machil incident was not the first or will not be the last case of an alleged encounter involving personnel of Army or CAPF.

Speaking to reporters later at the court complex, Sharmila said she was not trying to commit suicide but only demanding withdrawal of AFSPA.

Omar Abdullah said a start had to be made for the revocation of the AFSPA and he would take up the issue with the Centre.

CBI led the probe and, in 2012, told a Supreme Court bench that the Pathribal affair was a cold-blooded fake encounter.

AFSPA also allows the armed forces immunity from normal judicial processes, and, instead, in a rare case such as this, use its own mechanis...

The home ministry has taken exception to the CBI’s decision to charge-sheet IB’s Rajendra Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.

The government must speedily act to revoke this black law from wherever it is in effect, be it the north-east or Jammu and Kashmir.

Opposition CPI(M) today demanded that the Jammu and Kashmir government should bring a resolution on revocation of AFSPA in the state.

The controversy arose after the Army's Northern Command based in Udhampur issued a press release on the encounter that took place on Novemb...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah feels the Armed Forces Special Powers Act can be withdrawn from some areas in the state with...

A draft note has been circulated to defence ministry for their comments.