The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) withdrew a notification which authenticated Assam Rifles (AR) to conduct searches without a warrant and take people into custody in the non-Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) areas, reports Morung Express on February 22. According to MH officials, The Home Ministry put the notification in abeyance and would bring now only after a thorough review and consultations with the state governments concerned. Officials also added that the issue of re-conferring powers under CrPC to Assam Rifles — given in 1941 and taken back in 2006 — had been pending for long and it was needed for effective enforcement of Free Movement Regime along the India-Myanmar border. The Telegraph further adds that the withdrawal is being seen as a “course correction” as voices of protests were beginning to rise in the Northeast soon after the turmoil over the citizenship bill.