SC slams Assam government for not deporting persons declared foreigners |
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (February 4) slammed the state government of Assam for not deporting persons declared foreigners in detention centres and keeping them there indefinitely and said that once the detainees were identified as foreigners, they should be deported immediately,
A bench comprising Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan directed the Assam government to start process of deportation of 63 declared foreign nationals, whose nationality was known, and file a status report within two weeks.
The bench questioned the explanation by the state government that it was not sending nationality verification forms to the Ministry of External Affairs as the addresses of detainees in the foreign country were unknown.
“You have refused to start deportation saying their addresses are not known. Why should it be our concern? You deport to........