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Appellate Tribunal that may be filed within 45 days from the date of receiving
the order by the aggrieved person or the central government.
Section 20 of FEMA provides that the Appellate Tribunal shall consist of a
Chairperson and such number of members as the Central Government may
deem fit. The jurisdiction of the Appellate Tribunal may be exercised by the
Benches. The Bench may be constituted by the Chairperson, with one or more
Members as the Chairperson deems fit. The Benches of the Appellate Tribunal
shall ordinarily sit in New Delhi and at such other places as the Central
Government may, in consultation with the Chairperson, notify and the
Chairperson may transfer a Member from one Bench to another. If at any stage
it appears that the matter should be heard by a Bench of two Members the
Chairperson may transfer the matter to such Bench as he deems fit. A person
who is qualified to be a Judge of a High Court or is or has been a Judge of High
Court can be appointed as Chairperson of the Tribunal and a person who has
been or is qualified to be a District Judge can be appointed as a Member of the
Tribunal. Under Section 49 sub-Section (5) clause (b), all appeals which were
pending before PERA Board have been transferred and are at the disposal of
the Appellate Tribunal constituted under Foreign Exchange Management Act.
Enforcement Agencies
Police
The police force in the country is entrusted with the responsibility of maintenance
of public order and prevention and detection of crimes. Public order and police
being state subjects under the Constitution, police is maintained and controlled
by states. The police force in a state is headed by the Director General of Police/
Inspector General of Police. State is divided into convenient territorial divisions
called ranges and each police range is under the administrative control of a
Deputy Inspector General of Police. A number of districts constitute the range.
District police is further sub-divided into police divisions, circles and police
stations. Besides the civil police, states also maintain their own armed police
and have separate intelligence branches, crime branches, etc. Police set up in
big cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad,
Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Pune, etc., is directly under a Commissioner of Police
who enjoys magisterial powers. All senior police posts in various states are
manned by the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadres, recruitment to which is made
on All-India basis.
The central government maintains Central Police forces, Intelligence
Bureau (IB), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), institutions for training of
police officers and forensic science institutions to assist the states in gathering
intelligence, in maintaining law and order, in investigating special crime cases
and in providing training to the senior police officers of the state governments.
Indo-Tibetan Border Police
The ITBP was raised in the wake of Chinese aggression in 1962 with a modest
strength of 4 Bns under an integrated 'guerilla-cum-intellgence-cum-fighting