New Delhi, June 4 -- The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea challenging the Chhattisgarh Auxiliary Armed Police Force Act, 2011, holding that its enactment by the state legislature does not amount to contempt of the court's previous order that outlawed the controversial Salwa Judum militia. Salwa Judum militia was initiated in 2005 as a counter-insurgency strategy against Maoist rebels in southern Chhattisgarh. While refusing to strike down the 2011 legislation, a bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma stated in a May 15 order which was released recently, "We note that it is duty of the State of Chhattisgarh as well as the Union of India to take adequate steps for bringing about peace and rehabilitation to the residents o...