Observing that law and order was a 'state subject', a bench stayed the Calcutta High Court order restraining the Centre from relocating the paramilitary forces from WB's strife-torn districts

The Supreme Court yesterday permitted the Centre to withdraw seven of the 15 companies of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF) from strife-torn Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal for deployment in poll-bound states of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.