Besides the Principal Bench in New Delhi, AFT has a number

of regional benches in the country.

The judicial members of the AFT are retired High Court judges and administrative members are those retired officers of the armed forces who have held senior ranks of Major General or equivalent in other services.

"Similarly, members of the CAPFs tribunal can be drawn from judiciary and retired officials above the rank of Inspector General (IG) in these forces," the officer said.

The CAPFs of the Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Sashastra Seema Bal and the National Security Guard have a strength of over 8 lakh and are deployed to render a variety of duties including border guarding, conducting anti-Naxal operations and varied law and order duties.

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