evidence: The Indian government has repealed The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA) from parts of India’s Northeast. A controversial law which gives extraordinary powers to the security forces in counterinsurgency operations, AFSPA has now been lifted from 23 districts in Assam and partially lifted from seven districts in Nagaland, six districts in Manipur, and one district in Assam. All these states had been afflicted by insurgency for the past several decades. [...] The AFSPA originated during the colonial regime in India when the government enacted a law as an ordinance in the backdrop of the Quit India Movement in 1942. After Independence, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru decided to continue with the law owing to the insurgency in Assam and Manipur. Later, it was replaced by the Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act, 1958 in 1958.