SC Refuses To Entertain Plea Against Assam’s Indiscriminate Deportations

“You take your recourse to approach the Gauhati high court. 63 persons are being deported. You go to the high court,” said a bench of justices Sanjay Karol and SC Sharma, as it heard a student group’s petition.

The petition annexed press clippings showing people other than the 63 were being picked up and deported to Bangladesh.

Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who represented the petitioner All BTC Minority Students Union (ABMSU), said the 63 were declared foreigners after the external affairs ministry and Bangladesh confirmed their nationality for deportations. “The action of deportation is based on a pending order,” he said, referring to a February 4 Supreme Court order asking the Union and the Assam governments to deport the foreigners at an Assam detention centre by expediting the process of verification of their nationality with the external affairs ministry and Bangladesh.