Introduction
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is one of the many special laws passed by the parliament which provides policing responsibility to deal with the special situation. The reason of which the special laws go beyond the normal laws is that the state considered the existing legal framework is not enough to deal adequately with threats to the national security. At the same time, the legal security regime and defence mechanism of the state has been violating citizenship rights conferred by the constitution by misusing the special powers. Initially, the Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act, 1958 enforced as a temporary measures to deal with the Naga insurgency in the Naga Hills District of Assam including the three sub-divisions of the tribal hill areas in the then Union Territory of Manipur.
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