The many hurdles in proving citizenship
5 years, 5 months ago

The many hurdles in proving citizenship

The Hindu  

Apart from the floods in Assam, an annual event affecting thousands of families, another humanitarian crisis awaits the State this year. The future of the four million excluded so far, a number that might reduce when the final list is published on July 31, provides the foundation for the impending human crisis awaiting Assam. Their names are excluded from the NRC unless they can establish their credentials before a Foreigner’s Tribunal. The border police, present in every police station, picks up people, often poor workers in cities, fingerprints them, and then informs them in writing that they must appear before a Foreigner’s Tribunal. In a statement in the Lok Sabha on July 2, the Minister of State for Home Affairs, G. Kishan Reddy, said that from 1985 to February 2019, 63,959 people had been declared foreigners in ex parte rulings.

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Foreigners Act | Authorities Cannot Randomly Ask People To Prove Indian Citizenship On Mere Suspicion Without Sharing Any Materials: Supreme Court
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Foreigners Act | Authorities Cannot Randomly Ask People To Prove Indian Citizenship On Mere Suspicion Without Sharing Any Materials: Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the authorities cannot randomly accuse people of being foreigners and initiate investigation into a person's nationality without the existence of material basis or information for suspicion.Setting aside the declaration given by a Foreigners Tribunal in Assam in 2012 that the appellant was a foreigner,. The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the authorities …

Gauhati High Court Asks Assam to Set Up Detention Centres Outside Jails for 'Foreigners'
4 years, 2 months ago

Gauhati High Court Asks Assam to Set Up Detention Centres Outside Jails for 'Foreigners'

News 18  

The Gauhati High Court has asked the Assam government to set up six detention centres outside the jails for housing “declared foreigners”, an official said on Saturday. An official of the Border Wing unit of the Assam Police said on Saturday that Gauhati High Court judge Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua, after hearing multiple petitions, asked the state government earlier …

Gauhati HC Sets Aside Foreigners Tribunal Order Declaring Son Of Indian Citizens As Foreigner [Read Judgment]
4 years, 10 months ago

Gauhati HC Sets Aside Foreigners Tribunal Order Declaring Son Of Indian Citizens As Foreigner [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Guahati High Court has come down on a Foreigners Tribunal for declaring a person as foreigner, despite his parents being declared as Indian Citizens by other orders.On January 25, 2019, Foreigners Tribunal at Dhemaji in Assam declared 26-year old Pratap Sakharu as foreigner of post-1971 stream as per the Assam Accord.He had produced six documents before the Tribunal, including …

All States can now constitute Foreigners Tribunals
5 years, 7 months ago

All States can now constitute Foreigners Tribunals

The Hindu  

With Assam’s National Register of Citizens as the backdrop, the Ministry of Home Affairs has laid out specific guidelines to detect, detain and deport foreign nationals staying illegally across the country. The MHA has amended the Foreigners Order, 1964, and has empowered district magistrates in all States and Union Territories to set up tribunals to decide whether a person staying …

Supreme Court pulls up Assam over migrant issue
5 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court pulls up Assam over migrant issue

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the Assam government to spell out what measures they have taken to tackle the problem of large-scale influx of illegal migrants into the state. The top court noted that while the tribunals have declared 58,000 migrants as foreigners, there are only 900 inmates at detention centres. The court asked Assam government …

938 detained, 823 of them declared foreigners: Centre tells Supreme Court on details of functional detention centres in Assam
5 years, 10 months ago

938 detained, 823 of them declared foreigners: Centre tells Supreme Court on details of functional detention centres in Assam

India TV News  

Responding to the January 28 queries of the apex court which had asked the Centre and the state to provide details of functional detention centres in Assam and the foreigners detained in them during the last 10 years, the Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that 938 people are detained in six detention centres in Assam and 823 of …

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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