Section 144 as per The Indian Penal Code prohibits the gathering of five or more persons, holding of public meetings, and carrying of firearms and can be invoked for up to two months. It also gives the magistracy the power to issue order absolute at once in urgent cases. Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code of 1973 authorises the Executive Magistrate of any state or territory to issue an order to prohibit the assembly of four or more people in an area. According to the law, every member of such "unlawful assembly" can be booked fir engaging in rioting. A lock down is when there is a restriction on assembly but essential services ares still available. Section 144 is when assembly is prohibited under the Indian Penal Code. A curfew is when section 144 is imposed along with essential service shut down. Section 188 carries a maximum penalty of sex months in prison or fine or both. Earlier the Punjab Government decided to impose section-144 for three weeks across Punjab as the fist case of corona-virus reported in the province emerged in a hospital in Lahore.
New Delhi- Delhi Police commissioner SN Shrivastava has imposed Section 144, Which restricts assembly of more than four people in an area, in the national capital from 9 pm on Sunday till March 31 as a step to contain the spread of corona-virus. Section 144 CrPC, a law retained from the colonial era, empower a district magistrate, a sub-divisional magistrate or any other executive magistrate specially empowered by the government in this behalf to issue orders to prevent and address urgent cases of apprehended danger or nuisance. Section 144 empowers the administration technically a district magistrate or nay other executive magistrate-- to issue order in urgent cases of nuisance or apprehended danger, Put simply, the administration is empowered under section 144 ti impose restrictions on the personal liberties of individuals.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief minister B.S Bengaluru city police commissioner. The code of criminal Procedure commonly called Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) is the main legislation on procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India. It was enacted in 1973 and came into force on 1 April 1974. The Code of civil Procedure, 1908 is a procedural law related to the administration of civil proceedings in India. The sections provide provisions related to general principle of jurisdiction whereas the Orders and Rules prescribe Procedure and method than govern civil proceedings in India. Section 144 is a section of the code of criminal Procedure, which prohibits assembly of five or more people, holding of public meetings, and Carrying of Fire arms and can be invoked for up to two months. Under the terms of the Treaty of Amritsar that followed in March 1846, the British government sold Kashmir for a sum of 7.5 million Nanakshee rupees to Gulab Singh, hereafter bestowed with the title of Maharaja.
Jammu and Kashmir was a region formerly administered by India as a state from 1954 to 2019, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and china since the mid-20th century. Article 370 acknowledges the special status of the of Jammu and Kashmir in term of autonomy and its ability to formulate laws for the state's permanent residents. In the 1954 Presidential order, among other things, the Fundamental Rights in the Indian Consitution were made applicable to Kashmir with exceptions. Reports by Indian government state that 219 Kashmiri Pandits were killed from 1989 to 2004 and around 140,000 migrated due to militancy while over 3000 stayed in the valley The local organisation of Pandits in Kashmir, Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti after carrying out a survey in 2008 and 2009, claimed that 399.
This left the Kashmir Valley and "perhaps some adjacent country" around Muzaffarabad in uncertain political terrain. Pakistan did not accept this plan because it believed that India's commitment to a plebiscite for the whole state should not be abandoned. Security forces in India-administered Kashmir have been accused of carrying out beatings and torture in the wake of the government's decision to strip the region of its autonomy. The Indian army has called them "baseless and unsubstantiated." Union Territories are: Andaman and Nicobar Island, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nager Haveli and Daman and Diu, National capital Territory of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Ladakh and Puducherry. Reuters In 1962 china Occupied more territory of the state of Jammu and Kashmir during the India Sino war. In 1963 Pakistani military ruler General Ayyub Khan Gifted thousands of square miles of land in the state of Jammu and Kashmir to China.
