Detention centre near Guwahati nears completion as PM Modi denies construction of any
5 years ago

Detention centre near Guwahati nears completion as PM Modi denies construction of any

India Today  

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there were no detention centres being made for illegal immigrants in Assam and other parts of India, India Today TV found out that construction of the biggest detention centre at Matia in Assam's Goalpora district is in process. The decision to open detention centres within the district jails was taken by the then Congress government in 2009 to avoid declared foreigners from going missing. The entire process of detention centre was carried out under the guidelines of Supreme Court and was aimed at providing basic amenities to those who were identified as foreigners in India. The central government's data states that 988 people are lodged in six detention centers in Assam and 823 of them have been declared as foreigners by the Foreigners' Tribunals.

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Assam misses Gauhati HC-set deadline for Goalpara transit camp construction
3 years, 2 months ago

Assam misses Gauhati HC-set deadline for Goalpara transit camp construction

New Indian Express  

GUWAHATI: The Assam government has missed a Gauhati High Court-set deadline to complete the construction of a standalone detention centre for the declared foreigners at Matia in the state’s Goalpara district. “…The State envisaged that the construction of detention centre at Matia, Goalpara would be completed by September, 2021. In this regard, the learned Advocate General has submitted although he …

Foreigners' Detention Centre: Gauhati High Court Grants 45 Days To Assam Govt For Completing Construction, Shifting Detenues
3 years, 4 months ago

Foreigners' Detention Centre: Gauhati High Court Grants 45 Days To Assam Govt For Completing Construction, Shifting Detenues

Live Law  

In a petition concerning detention of foreign illegal migrants, the Gauhati High Court recently granted 45 days' time to the Assam Government for completing the construction of a detention centre at Matia, Goalpara and shifting of detenues to the same thereafter.Justice Kalyan Rai Surana also directed the Secretary of Assam Government, Home and Political Department to file an updated. In …

Assam detention centres for foreigners renamed ‘transit camps’
3 years, 4 months ago

Assam detention centres for foreigners renamed ‘transit camps’

The Hindu  

Assam’s detention centres for foreigners and those declared such by specific tribunals have been renamed as transit camps. On July 19, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had told the State Assembly that the detention centres have 181 inmates, 61 of whom are declared foreign nationals and 121 convicted foreign nationals awaiting deportation. Official data say 2,551 people were sent to …

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 …

Take Steps To Shift Foreigners Detention Centres Outside Jail Premises: Gauhati HC To Assam Govt [Read Order]
4 years, 3 months ago

Take Steps To Shift Foreigners Detention Centres Outside Jail Premises: Gauhati HC To Assam Govt [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Gauhati High Court on Wednesday directed the Assam Government to take steps to shift the foreigners detentions centres outside the jail premises.A single bench of Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua passed the direction after noting that a portion of jail premises are notified as centres to detain foreigners/illegal migrants at many places.In Goalpara, Kokrajhar and. The Gauhati High Court …

SC Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Release Of Detainees Who Have Spent More Than Two Years In Assam Foreigners' Detention Centres
4 years, 9 months ago

SC Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Release Of Detainees Who Have Spent More Than Two Years In Assam Foreigners' Detention Centres

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to Centre and Assam government on a plea seeking release of persons who have spent more than two years in the foreigners detention centers in Assam.The petition filed by Raju Bala Das, a detainee for more than 2 years, cites the risk of COVID-19 infection amidst the overcrowded situations in detention centres.There are …

The truth about Assam's detention centres
4 years, 11 months ago

The truth about Assam's detention centres

India Today  

In a direct refutal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement that there are no detention centres in India, Nityananda Rai, Union minister of state for home, admitted in the Lok Sabha on February 4 to the existence of six such in Assam. The government of India has also authorised the state government to set up detention centres to keep illegal …

Curious case of Justice Madan Lokur, his flip flop on detention centres and his membership of a shady foreign funded NGO
5 years ago

Curious case of Justice Madan Lokur, his flip flop on detention centres and his membership of a shady foreign funded NGO

Op India  

The Citizenship Amendment Act, that provides citizenship to persecuted religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, has seen numerous political parties change their stands on it over the years. That is why we are disappointed by recent statements by the Chief Justice of India on a complex matter relating to illegal detention and deportation, without heeding India’s own constitutional and …

‘How is it human?’: India’s largest detention centre almost ready
5 years ago

‘How is it human?’: India’s largest detention centre almost ready

Al Jazeera  

Amid anxieties over a nationwide citizen count by government, Al Jazeera visits a detention centre coming up in Assam. Goalpara, Assam – Ali, 25, is an electrician working at India’s largest detention centre currently under construction in Assam state’s Goalpara district in northeast India. Spread around nearly 300,000 square feet of land, the detention centre in Goalpara’s Matia village, 126km …

Data | Where are detention centres in India?
5 years ago

Data | Where are detention centres in India?

The Hindu  

The construction of another facility in Assam, which can hold 3,000 inmates, is nearing completion. Locations The six detention centres in the State house 970 detainees. Where are the detention centres in Assam image/svg+xml Highs and lows Among the 970 people detained in Assam, Tezpur has the highest number of detainees while Dibrugarh has the lowest. Detainees in Assam image/svg+xml …

Mamata Banerjee says no to detention centres in WB, she is lying
5 years ago

Mamata Banerjee says no to detention centres in WB, she is lying

Op India  

As the ongoing debate over the Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register has extended to the matter of detention centres, yesterday West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that no detention centre will be built in the state. In November this year, it was reported that the West Bengal government had decided to build …

NRC and story of how Assam got detention centres for foreigners
5 years ago

NRC and story of how Assam got detention centres for foreigners

India Today  

Assam currently has six detention camps. Though detection, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants are old demands in Assam, a little background about the creation of these detention centres may help understand the context. FIRST DETENTION CAMPS In July 2009, then Assam Revenue Minister Bhumidhar Barman informed state assembly that two detention camps would be set up to hold illegal …

Rahul Gandhi says PM Narendra Modi lying about detention centres, tweets video from Assam
5 years ago

Rahul Gandhi says PM Narendra Modi lying about detention centres, tweets video from Assam

India Today  

Rahul Gandhi is pointing to the existence of a detention centre in Matia, Assam, to accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying about the construction of such buildings. This weekend, PM Modi said there had been no talks on a pan-India NRC -- a citizenship verification drive that has so far been implemented only in Assam -- and accused the …

Hell, not detention centre: Assam ‘foreigner’ after PM remark
5 years ago

Hell, not detention centre: Assam ‘foreigner’ after PM remark

The Hindu  

Mohammed Sanaullah, a Guwahati-based retired Army officer, smiled wryly as he watched Prime Minister Narendra Modi's televised speech at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday. His “ears laughed” when Mr. Modi said: “ Koi desh ke Musalmano ko na detention centre may bheja ja raha hai, na Hindustan may koi detention centre hai.” The Gauhati High Court had on …

Detention centre fallout of Gauhati HC order, Centre has nothing to do with it: Assam minister
5 years ago

Detention centre fallout of Gauhati HC order, Centre has nothing to do with it: Assam minister

India Today  

Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the detention centre in Assam is the fallout of an order of the Gauhati High Court. "The Central government has never asked the Assam government to build a detention centre," Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Supporting and backing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Sunday remark at a rally in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi …

Narendra Modi's remarks on NRC contradict Amit Shah's claims
5 years ago

Narendra Modi's remarks on NRC contradict Amit Shah's claims

The Hindu  

Addressing a rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there have been no discussions on an all-India National Register of Citizens since the BJP-led government assumed power in 2014. Claims and counterclaims On November 20, 2019, in a reply to a question by Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, Home Minister Amit Shah said that …

Explained: Indian Home Ministry's guidelines on migrant camps
5 years, 5 months ago

Explained: Indian Home Ministry's guidelines on migrant camps

The Hindu  

The story so far: On Wednesday, the Delhi Police told the Supreme Court that nearly 500 illegal Bangladeshi migrants have been deported from the capital in the past 28 months. The report said, “Consequently, the jail authorities appear to apply the Assam Jail Manual to them, but deny them even the benefits, like parole, waged work etc., that the inmates …

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 …

SC seeks information on detention centres, foreigners detained there in Assam
5 years, 11 months ago

SC seeks information on detention centres, foreigners detained there in Assam

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to provide it with details of the number of foreigners lodged in detention centres in Assam. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi also sought the number of detention centres functioning, the status of pending cases against the detainees before the Foreigners Tribunal, the period of their detention, and …

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