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Punjab Village and Small Towns Act
April 2 , 2020
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- This law was recently invoked in Panchkula of Haryana to curtail movement during lockdown.
- This law was first enacted in 1918 in erstwhile Punjab to make provisions for nightly patrol duty by inhabitants of small villages and towns in cases of emergency.
- Under this Act, if the Deputy Commissioner of a district in Punjab or Haryana is of the opinion that in a village, special measures need to be taken to secure public safety, he has the power to make an order requiring all “able-bodied adult male inhabitants” to patrol the village.
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