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By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Aug 5: The Home Ministry has asked the Defence Ministry to change the latter’s standard operating procedures (SOPs) of deployment of troops to tackle riot situation. Sources said the Home Ministry had conveyed to the Defence Ministry that the SOPs for troops’ deployment in a situation of riot could not take precedence over law. Section 130 of the CrPC empowers an executive magistrate to requisition army troops and says the officer concerned of the armed forces “shall obey such requisition”. |
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