Rush Hour: SC rejects plea on Assam ‘push back’ policy, 3 dead in Sikkim landslide, & more

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The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a petition challenging the Assam government “pushing” back to Bangladesh persons who have been declared foreigners by Foreigners Tribunals in the state. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and SC Sharma has asked the petitioner to approach Gauhati High Court.

The bench was hearing a petition claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state was arbitrarily pushing Indian citizens to Bangladesh without following due process under the guise of deporting undocumented migrants.

The petition came against the backdrop of a surge in detentions of declared foreigners in Assam since May 23. Families say they have no information on their relatives’ whereabouts. Some of them have identified their missing relatives in videos from Bangladesh, alleging they were forcibly sent across the border. Read on.

Three Indian Army personnel were killed and six others are missing after a landslide struck an army camp in the Chatten area of North Sikkim on Sunday night.

The landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall that began around 7 pm near Lachen town in Mangan district. Four personnel who were injured in the landslide...

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