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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Krishnadas Rajagopal

SC to decide if Centre encroached into ‘legislative domain’ of Punjab by extending BSF jurisdiction to 50 km

The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine if all border States have to be treated alike while demarcating the area of jurisdiction of the Border Security Force (BSF), a central unit.

The court was hearing a dispute raised by Punjab against the Centre for extending BSF’s jurisdiction from 15 km to 50 km from the Indo-Pakistan border.

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