Assam Foreigners’ Tribunals have 83,000 pending cases
4 years, 4 months ago

Assam Foreigners’ Tribunals have 83,000 pending cases

The Hindu  

The State government said on Monday 83,008 cases of doubtful or D-voters were pending across the 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam. 1.13 lakh doubtful voters in Assam To a question by Congress MLA Zakir Hussain Sikdar, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told the 126-member House that the Sorbhog Assembly constituency in Barpeta district has the highest pending cases at 7,776. Delay in issuing rejection slips Mr. Patowary said the government had appointed 221 former judges, retired bureaucrats and lawyers as members for heading 200 new FTs sanctioned. The D-voters who fail to establish their citizenship at the FTs are housed in six detention centres along with those declared foreigners by the same FTs on the basis of cases referred by the State police’s Border wing tasked specifically with detecting and detaining suspected foreigners.

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How do Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function? | Explained
5 months, 3 weeks ago

How do Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: On July 5, the Assam government asked the Border wing of the State’s police not to forward cases of non-Muslims who entered India illegally before 2014 to the Foreigners Tribunals. The FTs are currently exclusive to Assam as cases of “illegal immigrants” are dealt with according to the Foreigners’ Act in other States. The apex court …

More than 1.59 lakh declared as 'foreigners' in Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma
10 months, 4 weeks ago

More than 1.59 lakh declared as 'foreigners' in Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Hindustan Times  

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has shared that more than 1.59 lakh people have been declared as 'foreigners' in the state so far. Assam chief minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma Sarma was responding to a question by opposition AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam in the assembly. In response to another question from Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, Sarma said as per …

'Don't Serve People with Doubtful Citizenship, Illegal Immigrants': Assam Eatery Menu Delivers Message
1 year, 10 months ago

'Don't Serve People with Doubtful Citizenship, Illegal Immigrants': Assam Eatery Menu Delivers Message

News 18  

A few metres away from the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi airport is the recently introduced Kharoli restaurant that satisfies one’s craving for “homemade indigenous food”. However, as one scans through the menu provided on the dining table, one thing that most drew attention was a disclaimer at the bottom, which read, “We don’t serve people of doubtful citizenship and illegal immigrants. …

Cloud over 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals, in Assam
2 years, 3 months ago

Cloud over 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals, in Assam

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The Assam government has decided not to extend the term of members who were appointed for 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals that were set up primarily to handle cases related to the National Register of Citizens. Done and dusted: On the National Register of Citizens process Assam has had 100 regular FTs since 2009 to try the cases of suspected …

Gurkhas not to be tagged as foreigners, orders Assam govt
3 years, 4 months ago

Gurkhas not to be tagged as foreigners, orders Assam govt

The Hindu  

The Assam government’s Political Department on Tuesday issued a notification ordering the State police’s Border wing not to forward any case against Gurkhas to the Foreigners’ Tribunals under the Foreigners’ Act of 1946. The official notification follows the Himanta Biswa Sarma Cabinet’s decision on August 4 to exempt the community from being tagged as non-citizens and tried in the tribunals …

Assam NRC: State Coordinator Moves Supreme Court Seeking Comprehensive, Time Bound Re-verification Of Draft NRC
3 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC: State Coordinator Moves Supreme Court Seeking Comprehensive, Time Bound Re-verification Of Draft NRC

Live Law  

The State Co-ordinator of the Assam NRC has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time bound reverification of draft NRC and the supplementary list of NRC under Clause 4 of Schedule of Citizenship Rules, 2003 highlighting major irregularity in the process of making the same.The intervention application. The State Co-ordinator of the Assam NRC has approached the Supreme …

Polls in Pandemic: Active Cases in Bengal, Kerala Double in a Week; Assam Sees 230% Jump
3 years, 8 months ago

Polls in Pandemic: Active Cases in Bengal, Kerala Double in a Week; Assam Sees 230% Jump

News 18  

Amid the devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, there has been a drastic increase in active cases in states where elections have been taking place. The active Covid-19 cases in West Bengal and Kerala have doubled in a week between April 12 and April 19, Tamil Nadu has reported a 62 per cent increase, and for Assam …

Assam Elections 2021: 18% Candidates Contesting in Phase 3 Declared Criminal Cases Against Themselves, Says ADR
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Elections 2021: 18% Candidates Contesting in Phase 3 Declared Criminal Cases Against Themselves, Says ADR

News 18  

Out of the 337 candidates contesting in the third phase of the Assam Assembly polls this year, 18 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms. “Out of the 337 candidates analysed, 60 candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves and 45 have declared serious criminal cases against themselves,” the …

Covid-19 Lockdown: What Does it Mean for Assam's 'Doubtful Voters' and NRC Rejects
4 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 Lockdown: What Does it Mean for Assam's 'Doubtful Voters' and NRC Rejects

News 18  

A few days back it was only freedom and nothing else that mattered, but today when she is out in the open after 10 long years in detention, she is still crying for freedom. The decision of the apex court, which was in response to a petition filed by Justice and Liberty Initiative, a civil society group, on March 25, …

1.13 lakh doubtful voters in Assam
4 years, 10 months ago

1.13 lakh doubtful voters in Assam

The Hindu  

The Assam government on Monday said there are more than 1.13 lakh doubtful voters or D-voters in the State, while six detention centres are currently holding 680 people declared as foreigners. NRC next step The Assembly was told on Monday that the 19.06 lakh people excluded from the National Register of Citizens would be issued “rejection slips” after the “speaking …

Almost 1.3 lakh people declared foreigners in Assam
5 years ago

Almost 1.3 lakh people declared foreigners in Assam

Hindustan Times  

The ministry of home affairs informed the Parliament on Tuesday that 1,29,009 people have been declared as foreigners while 1,14,225 people have been declared as Indians by the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam as of October 2019. The ministry of home affairs informed the Parliament on Tuesday that 1,29,009 people have been declared as foreigners by the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam …

Assam govt issues notice to set up 200 additional Foreigner Tribunals in 33 districts for hearing appeals of those excluded from final NRC
5 years, 3 months ago

Assam govt issues notice to set up 200 additional Foreigner Tribunals in 33 districts for hearing appeals of those excluded from final NRC

Firstpost  

The Assam government has issued a notification setting up 200 more appellate Foreigner Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens Guwahati: The Assam government has issued a notification setting up 200 more appellate Foreigner Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens. The appeal against …

Opinion | NRC: Who’s in, who’s out
5 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | NRC: Who’s in, who’s out

Live Mint  

The publication of the final list of the National Register of Citizens in Assam may have opened up a Pandora’s Box. It is bad enough that a state with deep ethnic, linguistic and religious fault lines, evident in the frequency of social flare-ups, has been engaged in a convoluted process of working out who is an Indian citizen and who …

Assam release NRC list; 200 additional foreigners tribunal to function from Monday
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam release NRC list; 200 additional foreigners tribunal to function from Monday

Live Mint  

New Delhi: As many as 200 additional foreigners tribunals will be operational in Assam from Monday where bona fide citizens, whose names do not figure in the final NRC, can approach to challenge their exclusion, officials said on Friday. From September 1, a total of 200 additional foreigners tribunals will start functioning across Assam," a senior Home Ministry official said. …

India excludes nearly 2 million people from Assam citizen list
5 years, 4 months ago

India excludes nearly 2 million people from Assam citizen list

Al Jazeera  

Nearly two million people have been excluded from a list of citizens in India‘s northeastern Assam state, raising fears they could be rendered stateless. ‘No need to panic’ Assam’s Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal called for calm on Saturday, pledging to take “special care” with those whose names have been excluded. But Himanta Biswa, a minister from Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, …

Assam: The race for a place in citizens’ list
5 years, 6 months ago

Assam: The race for a place in citizens’ list

Deccan Chronicle  

The Rs 1,500-crore mega exercise of updating the National Register of Citizens in Assam is coming to an end on July 31, the date fixed by the Supreme Court for the authorities to declare the final list of citizens. A total of 3.29 crore people applied for inclusion of their names in the updated NRC, of which 40 lakh names …

Centre to help Assam govt set up 1000 foreigners' tribunals, redressal portal
5 years, 7 months ago

Centre to help Assam govt set up 1000 foreigners' tribunals, redressal portal

India TV News  

The Centre will help the Assam government in setting up 1,000 foreigners tribunals by July 31 when the final list of National Register of Citizens will be published, officials said. The home ministry will help the Assam government in setting up the 1,000 foreigners tribunals, the official said. The move came after the Supreme Court recently questioned the state government's …

58-year-old man dies in Assam detention camp for illegal immigrants
5 years, 7 months ago

58-year-old man dies in Assam detention camp for illegal immigrants

Hindustan Times  

The family of a 58-year-old man who died in a detention centre for illegal immigrants in Assam’s Tezpur accepted his body hours after police took it to his village in Nagaon on Sunday as they protested his wrongful confinement. Assam has 100 foreigners tribunals where those marked as suspected illegal immigrants either by the Border Organisation of Assam police or …

1,490 detained in Assam in three years; 691 released later
5 years, 11 months ago

1,490 detained in Assam in three years; 691 released later

The Hindu  

The Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam have in the last three years sent 1,490 people in detention centres in the State, out of nearly 8,992 cases they received to determine citizenship, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said that according to the information made available by the State government, 2,764 people were …

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