{"id":3249,"date":"2019-04-02T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:12:33","slug":"how-will-you-trace-the-undeclared-foreigners-in-assam-sc-asks-state-govt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-will-you-trace-the-undeclared-foreigners-in-assam-sc-asks-state-govt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How will you trace the &#8216;undeclared foreigners&#8217; in Assam, SC asks State govt."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Supreme Court has rebuked the Assam\ngovernment on its failure to come up with a future course of action to track\ndown absconding illegal foreigners and thousands other undeclared ones in the\nstate. An illegal foreigner is declared so my Foreigners Tribunals of Assam. The\nSC is hearing a plea which raised the issue of dismal living conditions in the\ndetention centres of Assam.<\/li><li>The Supreme Court has also criticised the\n\u201cpushing back\u201d of illegal migrants to Bangladesh without enquiring about their\ncountry of origin. However, the government highlighted the issues with\ndetermining nationality of illegal foreigners. The government clarified that\nthe \u201cpush-back\u201d policy was stopped in 2013. At present, diplomatic channels are\nemployed to determine the nationality of an illegal foreigner and to deport the\nperson.<\/li><li>According to Citizenship Act 1955, an illegal\nmigrant is a foreigner who enters the country without valid travel documents,\nlike a passport and visa, or enters with valid documents, but stays beyond the\npermitted time period. Foreigner is one who is not a citizen of India. Illegal\nmigrants may be imprisoned or deported under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the\nPassport (Entry into India) Act, 1920.<\/li><li>Foreigners Tribunal (FT) was set up in Assam in\n1964 through the Foreigners Tribunal Order 1964. The tribunals have been\nmandated with identifying the legal status of suspected foreigners in Assam.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has rebuked the Assam government on its failure to come up with a future course of action to track down absconding illegal foreigners and thousands other undeclared ones in the state. An illegal foreigner is declared so my Foreigners Tribunals of Assam. The SC is hearing a plea which raised the issue&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-will-you-trace-the-undeclared-foreigners-in-assam-sc-asks-state-govt-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How will you trace the &#8216;undeclared foreigners&#8217; in Assam, SC asks State govt.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[6975],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-foreigners-tribunal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704320655},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}