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The petition stated that the order of the Supreme Court has been contested, as the Chhattisgarh government has passed the Chhattisgarh Assistant Armed Police Force Act, 2011, which authorizes a tributary forces to assist security forces in dealing with the Maoist/Naxal violence and makes them valid by including the existing SPOs as members.
The Supreme Court has said that no law made by Parliament or State Legislature can not be considered contempt of court. A bench of Justice BV Nagratna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma made this comment while disposing of the 2012 contempt petition filed by sociologist and former Professor Nandini Sundar and others of Delhi University. The contempt petition has accused the Government of Chhattisgarh of preventing support to monitoring groups like Salwa Judum and failing to follow the 2011 instructions to give weapons to the tribals in the name of special police officers in the fight against the Maoists.
The petition stated that the order of the Supreme Court has been contested, as the Chhattisgarh government has passed the Chhattisgarh Assistant Armed Police Force Act, 2011, which authorizes a tributary forces to assist security forces in dealing with the Maoist/Naxal violence and makes them valid by including the existing SPOs as members. In addition to accusing the Chhattisgarh government of not accepting the instructions on Salwa Judum, the petitioners said that instead of using and dismissing the SPO, the State Government passed the Chhattisgarh Assistant Armed Police Force Act, 2011, under which all SPOs were regularized on July 5, 2011 from the date of the top court order.
He alleged that the state government has not evacuated all school buildings and ashrams from the possession of security forces nor compensated the victims of Salwa Judum and SPO. The apex court said on May 15 that after the order of the apex court, Chhattisgarh passing any law could not be a contempt task.
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