The AFSPA empowers the security forces to conduct operations and arrest anyone without any prior warrant. It also gives immunity to the forces if they shoot someone dead.
CDS General Bipin Rawat had survived a chopper crash six years ago in 2015, during his tenure as a Lieutenant General (LG) in Nagaland's Dimapur district.
When CDS General Bipin Rawat had survived a helicopter crash six years ago - General Rawat, his wife and 11 other persons out of the 14 on board lost their lives in the IAF helicopter crash today.