BSF pushes back Rohingya from Tripura: 

BSF pushes back Rohingya from Tripura: 

Context:

• The Boarder Security Force recently pushed back four Rohingya Muslims who were trying to cross over an unfenced stretch on the Bangladesh border in Tripura.

Introduction:

• This is the first instance of Rohingya being pushed back since the Home Ministry circular on August 19 to identify and deport them.
• The BSF had identified 75 vulnerable locations on a 21 km stretch in Tripura.
• NHRC opposition
• The National Human Rights Commission has opposed the government’s move to deport and push back the Rohingya and sought a report from the Ministry.

Government’s affidavit

• In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on September 18, the union government said Rohingya were a threat to national security and “some of the unauthorised Rohingya immigrants had linkages with Pakistan-based terror organisations.”
• It said there was an organised influx of “illegal” immigrants from Mynamar through agents and touts facilitating illegal immigration of Rohingya into India via Benapole-Haridaspur (West Bengal), Hili (West Bengal), Sonamora (Tripura), Kolkata and Guwahati.
• The first four points are authorised immigration checkpoints and manned by customs, immigration and BSF officials.

Background:

• In June, the Home Ministry constituted yet another committee to examine various methods to curb the misuse of free movement along the Myanmar border, a friendly country, with which it shares unfenced borders and unhindered movement of people across the border.
• The committee, headed by Rina Mitra, Special Secretary, Internal Security, visited the border areas last week.