{"id":89534,"date":"2019-03-14T17:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:54:55","slug":"sc-pulls-up-assam-government-over-inadequate-functioning-of-foreigners-tribunal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-pulls-up-assam-government-over-inadequate-functioning-of-foreigners-tribunal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SC pulls up Assam government over inadequate functioning of foreigner\u2019s tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Supreme Court has accused the Centre and the\nAssam government for being negligent about tackling the inflow of illegal migrants\ninto Assam and their deportations. Further, the court has expressed concerns\nabout the poor functioning of Foreigner Tribunals in the state.<\/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 1964\nthrough the Foreigners Tribunal Order 1964. The tribunals have been mandated\nwith identifying the legal status of suspected foreigners in Assam. At present,\nthere are 100 FTs in Assam; of these 64 were set up in 2015, to expedite the exercise\nof determining illegal immigrants in the state through the National Register of\nCitizens (NRC).<\/li><li>Assam also had Illegal Migrants Determination\nTribunal which was established in 1985 under the Illegal Migrants (Determination\nby Tribunal) (IMDT) Act, 1983. The tribunals only considered the cases of those\nwho had allegedly entered India after March 25, 1971. IMDT Act was enacted to\nput forward the procedures to detect illegal immigrants (from Bangladesh) and\nexpel them from Assam.<\/li><li>IMDT Act had placed the onus of proving\ncitizenship on the accuser, rather than the accused and thus had made\ndetermining illegal migrants difficult. In 2006, the Act was struck down by the\nSupreme Court on the grounds that it was the main impediment the identification\nand deportation of illegal migrants.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has accused the Centre and the Assam government for being negligent about tackling the inflow of illegal migrants into Assam and their deportations. Further, the court has expressed concerns about the poor functioning of Foreigner Tribunals in the state. According to Citizenship Act 1955, an illegal migrant is a foreigner who enters&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-pulls-up-assam-government-over-inadequate-functioning-of-foreigners-tribunal-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC pulls up Assam government over inadequate functioning of foreigner\u2019s tribunal<\/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":[6975,5312],"class_list":["post-89534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-foreigners-tribunal","tag-illegal-migrants","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704813068},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534","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=89534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}