Centre empowers BSF! Extends BSF jurisdiction in three border states to 50 km

Earlier, the jurisdictional limit for BSF in these states was 15 kilometers.

NewsBharati    14-Oct-2021
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New Delhi, October 14: Empowering the Border Security Force, the Ministry of Home Affairs has increased the jurisdiction of BSF from 15 km to 50 km inside the international border along with Punjab, West Bengal, and Assam. Earlier, the jurisdictional limit for BSF in these states was 15 kilometers.
 
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With the new order, BSF will now be able to conduct searches, arrest, and make seizures up to an area of 50 km within Indian territory from the International Border (IB), without any hurdle or further permission either from central or state governments.
 
An officer of the rank corresponding to that of the lowest rank of member of the BSF is now empowered under the CrPC to exercise and discharge the powers and duties without an order from a magistrate and a warrant.BSF has got the right to take this action under CrPC, Passport Act, and Passport (Entry to India) Act.
 
In a notification issued on Monday, the Centre said it is amending the schedule of its earlier notification of July 2014 in terms of jurisdiction of the BSF to exercise its powers in states that it guards international borders. The government has said the move was aimed at ensuring "zero tolerance" against terrorism and cross-border crimes.
 
 
 
“The whole of the area comprised in the states of Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya and Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and so much of the area comprised within a belt of fifty kilometers in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, West Bengal, and Assam, running along the borders of India,” the order issued in the Gazette notification on October 11 mentions.
 

The Union Home Ministry took the step “in the exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968)”, making amendments in the notification of the central government published in the Gazette of India on 3 July 2014.
 
Apart from that, BSF will also be able to search and arrest in Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura, Manipur, and Ladakh. Meanwhile, the jurisdiction of BSF in Gujarat has been reduced from 80 km to 50 km, while in Rajasthan the radius area has been kept 50 km as before.
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