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The Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was a controversial law passed by the Indian parliament in 1971 giving the administration of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Indian law enforcement agencies very broad powers – indefinite preventive detention of individuals, search and seizure of property without warrants, and wiretapping – in the quelling of civil and political disorder in ...
Protection and security of operational areas Sashastra Seema Bal: 97,244 [9] Ministry of Home Affairs: India–Nepal border and India–Bhutan border [10] Border guard Special Frontier Force: 10,000 [9] Cabinet Secretariat [11] Covert operations: Special Protection Group: 3,000 [9] Cabinet Secretariat: Security of Prime Minister of India ...
The National Security Act of 1980 is an act of the Indian Parliament promulgated on 23 September 1980 [1] whose purpose is "to provide for preventive detention in certain cases and for matters connected therewith". [2] The act extends to the whole of India. It Contains 18 sections.
Threats to the general peace may range from minor civil unrest, large scale violence, or even an armed insurgency.Threats to internal security may be directed at either the state's citizens, or the organs and infrastructure of the state itself, and may range from petty crime, serious organized crime, political or industrial unrest, or even domestic terrorism.
India has a number of intelligence agencies, of which the best known are the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external intelligence agency, and the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the domestic intelligence agency, responsible for counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism and overall internal security.
The Rashtriya Rifles (RR; transl. National rifles) is a counter-insurgency force in India, formed in 1990, to deal with internal security in the Jammu and Kashmir region. [2] They maintain public order by drawing powers from the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990 (AFSPA). [3]
The Indian Police Service more popularly known as the 'IPS', is responsible for internal security, public safety and law and order. In 1948, a year after India gained independence from Britain, the Imperial Police (IP) was replaced by the Indian Police Service. The IPS is not a law enforcement agency in its own right; rather it is the body to ...