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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at page 21, it sets out the type of protective action that the agency can engage in. The agency shall establish and maintain a witness protection programme and shall take such action as may be necessary and reasonable to protect the safety and welfare of the protected person. Without prejudice to the generality of that paragraph, the action taken under this Sub-section may include, and is not limited to, critical and armed protection. That is, providing askaris to the protected person for day and night. It may need relocation or a complete change of identity. So, there are a number of ways in which this protection can be secured. For that, it may become necessary to make appropriate applications in court, particularly, when one is talking about change of identity or change of face. It may be necessary to do that. Maybe, that person has some liabilities against third parties and so on. All that has to be looked into before you can relocate that person securely somewhere else. Therefore, it may be necessary to make the necessary application in court and if necessary, the hearing of those applications will be heard in camera. As I said earlier, whereas under the Act, the decision to admit or exclude any person from the programme rested with the Attorney-General but now, it is going to rest with the Independent Witness Protection Agency."
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