In Gauhati HC, Challenge to Assam’s ‘Pushback’ Into Bangladesh: ‘Nothing in Law Ratifies This Action’
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In Gauhati HC, challenge to Assam’s ‘pushback’ into Bangladesh: ‘Nothing in law ratifies this action’
The All BTC Minority Students Union has moved the Gauhati High Court with a petition against the Assam government’s actions of “pushing back” alleged foreigners into Bangladesh after the Supreme Court refused to entertain their plea and asked them to approach the high court. In a hearing held Friday at the Gauhati High Court, a Bench of Justices Manish Choudhury and Mitali Thakuria directed the counsels for the petitioners to identify specific i…
Another Pushback Halted: SC stays deportation of woman declared foreigner, issues notice on challenge to Gauhati HC order
In a significant development amid intensifying concerns over arbitrary deportations in Assam, the Supreme Court today granted interim protection from deportation to Jaynab Bibi, a woman declared a foreigner by a Foreigners Tribunal under Section 2(a) of the Foreigners Act, 1946. The Tribunal’s 2017 declaration had been upheld by the Gauhati High Court earlier this year. On June 24, a bench comprising Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vinod Chandran issu…
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