A central team probing security lapses during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ferozepur on January 5 reached Punjab city on Friday, while the state government submitted a report to the Center saying an FIR has been registered in the matter and a two-member panel is. Set-up. The three-member committee of the Center will seek details about the sequence of events that came to light when PM Modi was stranded on the highway for nearly 20 minutes.
The team first went to Pyarana flyover near Firozpur and interacted with senior officials of Punjab Police and civil administration. The panel is headed by Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Secretary (Security), Cabinet Secretariat and includes Intelligence Bureau Joint Director Balbir Singh and Special Security Group IG S Suresh.
The security of the Prime Minister of India comes under the domain of the Special Protection Group or SPG. Here’s what you need to know about the Special Protection Group (SPG) Act.
What is SPG Act?
The Special Protection Group Act, 1988 provides for the constitution and regulation of an armed force of the Union to provide close security to the Prime Minister of India and former Prime Ministers of India and members of their immediate families.
Why was the Act passed?
The Act was passed by Parliament after the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and was extended to all former Prime Ministers and their immediate families after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
What are the functions of SPG members?
Officers involved in the SPG have to provide close security during travel by road, rail, aircraft, ship or foot or by any other means of transport and shall include places of functions, engagement, residence or halt and shall include ring rounds. Will happen. Rostrum and access control for the team, isolation cordon, surrounding sterile area, and the individual or his or her immediate family members.
Who controls the SPG?
The general superintendence, direction and control of the Group shall be vested in and shall be exercised and subject to the Central Government and in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules, the command and supervision of the Group shall be vested in an officer. Appointed as a Director of the Group by the Central Government.
What are SPG members banned from?
SPG members may not be associated in any way with any trade union, trade union, political union or any class of trade unions, trade unions or political unions. They cannot be part of any society, institution, association or organization which is not purely social, recreational or religious in nature.
Members are not permitted to communicate with the press or to publish or publish any book, letter or other document, except where such communication or publication is in the actual discharge of its duties or is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character. of or of a prescribed nature.
When and why was the Act amended?
The SPG Act 2019 was amended to reduce the SPG cover only for the Prime Minister and his immediate family members residing with him at his official residence.
The 2019 amendment reduced the time period of SPG cover to five years for former prime ministers and their immediate family after demitting office, provided that the immediate family members live with the former prime minister at the allotted residence.
The Special Protection Group (Amendment) Act, 2019 states that when proximate security is withdrawn from a former Prime Minister, such proximate security shall also be withdrawn from his family members.
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