State Consent

2 notes tagged State Consent.

• Polity

  Central Bureau of Investigation: Superintendence, the Director's Fixed Tenure, and State Consent

  The CBI has no Act of its own; it runs entirely on the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. Who superintends it, how its Director is appointed and protected, and why a state's consent actually matters.

• Polity

  National Investigation Agency: No State Consent Needed

  The NIA Act, 2008's Section 6, and why the Centre can direct NIA to investigate a scheduled offence anywhere in India without the state's consent, the opposite of the CBI's own Section 6.