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ILP origin : Northeast Echoes
The Telegraph | Patricia Mukhim | October 21 , 2013
What is the ILP and why has it become a sacrosanct legal instrument despite its obvious failure to check the inflow of non-tribals/illegal immigrants and the outflow of resources from those states where it is in force? The ILP flows from the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) Act, 1873. The spirit in which this law was enacted by the British needs to be seen from their perspective then, not from our perspective today.
The most telling section of the BEFR is Section 5 (1) of Regulation 5 which says: “Any rubber, wax, ivory or other jungle-product (or any book, diary, manuscript, map, picture, photograph, film, curio or article of religious or scientific interest) found in the possession of any person convicted of any offence under this Regulation may be confiscated to government by an order to be passed at the time of conviction by the magistrate.”
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