Apart from the Assam Tenancy Act, Chandigarh will also see extensions of four other state legislations — the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act, 2012, the Punjab Abadi Deh (Record of Rights) Act, 2021, the Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act of 2001 and 2003, and the Haryana Fire and Emergency Services Act, 2022. Chandigarh will now see an extension of the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act, 2012, to check illegal immigration rackets, fraudulent travel agents and organised human smuggling operations. Even as Chandigarh would from time to time give advisories and directives to check immigration rackets, there was a need to have a proper act to check the nature of this crime. The new law now seeks to regulate overseas travel and visa businesses, and protect people from being cheated in the name of foreign jobs, education or migration.…