Assam border police told to apprehend persons absconding after being declared ‘foreigners’
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Aadhar card seekers in the state would have to submit details of their applications for the National Register of Citizens.
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The Assam government on Saturday directed its border police to “launch sustained efforts to locate and apprehend persons who have absconded after being declared foreigners by the foreigners tribunals”.
Earlier this week, 28 persons, including nine women, from Barpeta district were shifted to a transit camp in Goalpara after they were declared foreigners by the tribunal.
“These people were declared foreigners by the foreigners tribunal after proper hearings,” Barpeta Superintendent of Police Sushanta Biswa Sarma said, according to The Indian Express. “As per its order, we carried out the transfer of these foreign nationals to the camp.”
Foreigners tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies that determine if someone suspected of being a foreigner is in fact an Indian citizen. Assam is the only state in the country to have them.
People excluded from the National Register of Citizens for Assam or whose citizenship has been marked as “doubtful” can appeal to the tribunals.
In its notice to the Assam Police Border Organisation on Saturday, the home department also directed the implementation of “preventive and precautionary measures to intensify the detection and curb the movement of illegal migrants” across the state’s international borders.
Assam shares a border with Bhutan and Bangladesh.
The notice also claimed that recent reports indicated an “increase in the number of illegal immigrants being detected” in the...
