Tag: Assam NRC

Court directs BSF Sector HQ to allow access; authorities must disclose deportation details if already carried out — petition remains pending

The High Court, through interim orders issued from Friday June 6 onwards ensured that the authorities disclosed (confirmed) location of two detainees in Kokrajhar Holding Centre, grants visitation rights; seeks clarity on BSF handover; addresses procedural revival of ex parte FT order; and stays deportation in one case

This non transparent action launched post May 23, 2025 ‘falls on the wrong side of constitutionality’ and violates the rights to life and equality of those expelled, they said in a statement

Latest submission documents the late night detentions and expulsions that violated all procedures, family testimonies, amounting to the forced abandonment of persons in Bangladeshi borderlands.

Following petitions filed by family members, High Court seeks clarity on status of two individuals previously declared ‘foreigners’ but released on bail and reporting regularly to police under Supreme Court guidelines

The sum total of what cruelties can be suffered when state authorities become unaccountable and function above the law, slurring ordinary Indians as “Bangladeshi”; the first person exclusive accounts are from six hapless women from various locales in Assam, fortunate to be dumped back within Assam on a highway far from home after first being unlawfully pushed into to Bangladesh!

CJP’s memorandum to NHRC reveals mass night-time raids, disappearances of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and extra-legal deportations—signalling a grave constitutional and humanitarian crisis in India’s northeast

Between the night of Friday, May 23, and Monday, May 26, Assam police launched a sweeping crackdown across all 33 districts—including Barak Valley, Central, Lower, and North Assam—detaining nearly 300 men and women without notice or legal justification. Families and advocates were given no information about their whereabouts, in clear violation of constitutional and legal norms. While about 150 were reportedly released within days, unconfirmed reports to CJP’s ground team suggest that 145 individuals—still fighting for their citizenship rights—were forcibly pushed across the border, left stranded and vulnerable in the no man’s land between the two countries

Examining the Supreme Court’s latest ruling and its impact on citizenship claims under the Foreigners Act in Assam, with a detailed analysis of how the Rofiqul Hoque case reshapes judicial scrutiny of documentary evidence

With CJP’s intervention, the 10 th Foreigners Tribunal in Dhubri recognised Matleb Ali’s Indian citizenship, restoring his dignity and ending his battle against wrongful suspicion of foreigner status