A court in Kashmir’s Bandipora district rejected the union government’s argument that the landowner was required to first seek sanction under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) before filing the recovery suit in a dispute involving the felling of trees on a land taken over by the Army on rent from a civilian. As per Live Law, Principal District Judge Amit Sharma ruled that the status of defendants, which include Union of India and the Army, is not more than a tenant and they were “not supposed to make…
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