Guwahati, India (Reuters) -Itin began pushing people who she believes illegal immigrants to neighboring Bangladesh, but human rights activists say that authorities are arbitrarily throwing people out of the country.
Since May The Northeast Indian Assam State “released” 303 people to Bangladesh out of 30,000 foreigners over the years, over the years, the top official said this week.
Such people of Assam are usually long -term inhabitants with families and land in the state with tens of thousands of families tracing their roots to the majority of Bangladesh Muslims.
Activists say that many of them and their families are often incorrectly classified as foreigners mainly in Indian India and are too poor to challenge judicial decisions in higher courts.
Some activists who did not want to be named for fear of representation said that only Muslims were directed to the shipment. A representative of the Assam government did not immediately respond to the request to comment.
Assam, with a 260 km (160 mile) wall with Bangladesh, started sending people last month by foreigners announcing her aliens’ tribunals. Such a move is a politically popular in ASAME, where Bengal language speakers with potential roots in Bangladesh compete for work and resources with local Asams speakers.
“The pressure of the Supreme Court to operate for the expulsion of foreigners,” the Associate Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. “We rejected 303 people. These distances will be activated. We must be more active and proactive to save the state.”
He talked about the Supreme Court, asking Assam in February, why he did not move to deported the announced foreigners.
Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain immediately did not respond to email. A letter asking for a comment. He told reporters last week that people were sent to his country from India and that the government was in contact with new Delhi.
Aman Wadud, a lawyer based in Assame, who regularly struggles with citizenship cases and is now a member of the main party of the opposition Congress, said the government “arbitrarily thrown people out of the country.”
“There is a lot of panic on Earth – more than ever before,” he said.
Some returned
Sarma stated that no true citizens of India would be sent. However, he added that up to four exiled people were returned to India because the court was hearing appeals to defend their non -Indian status.
One of them was Khairul Islam, a 51 -year -old Government School teacher in 2016. The tribunal declared a foreigner. He spent two years in the Asam detention center and was released for bail by 2020. August
He said the police had taken him on May 23. From his home and took him to the detention center, from which he was still rounded by the Indian border guards and loaded into a minibus, eyes and hands tied.
“Then 14 of us were built to another truck. We were taken to place along the wall and pushed to Bangladesh,” he said. “It was frightening. I never experienced anything like that. It was late in the evening. It was a straight road and we all started walking it.”
Islam stated that then the inhabitants of Bangladesh village then called the Bangladesh border guard, who then pushed Group 14 to “no man between two countries”.
“We stood there all day in the open field under the harsh sun,” he said.
The group was later taken to the Bangladesh Guard Camp, and Islamic wife told police to ASSAM police that his case is still in court, it should be refunded.
“A few days later, I was suddenly handed over to the Indian police,” he said. “This is how I came home. I have no idea what happened to others who were with me or where they are.”
Not only Assame behaves against people who are believed to live illegally in the country.
In the Western City of Ahmedabad, police said they had found more than 250 people, “confirmed that there are Bangladesh immigrants living here illegally.”
“Their deportation process is ongoing,” said Ajit Rajian, a senior police officer.
(Wrote Krishna N. Das; Ruma Paul Ruma Paul and Sumit Khanna, Ahmedabad; Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan)