Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017: Supreme Court allows Centre to deploy four companies of CAPF in poll-bound state
The Calcutta High Court Had Earlier Stayed The Withdrawal Of CAPF From Darjeeling Hills.
The Centre has been allowed by the Supreme Court to pull out four of the eight companies of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF) from strife-torn Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal. The four companies of CAPF will be deployed in poll-bound Gujarat.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud agreed to the Centre's plea to relocate half of the remaining paramilitary forces from the state's strife-torn districts to the poll-bound state.The apex court had earlier on October 27 permitted the Centre to withdraw seven of the 15 companies of CAPF from Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts for deployment along the borders of Jammu and Kashmir and in the north-eastern states and to the poll-bound states of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.The Calcutta High Court had earlier stayed the withdrawal of CAPF from Darjeeling hills.
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