In the evening of December 4, 2021, security forces had, in a case of “mistaken identity”, fired at a pickup truck carrying eight miners in Oting in Mon district.
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been extended in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh and nine districts of Nagaland for six months. The AFSPA empowers security forces to arrest a person and search premises without a warrant.
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