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‘Are you ready for some muhurat’: Supreme Court docket slams Assam govt for not deporting foreigners

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Supreme Court docket was listening to a plea in regards to the deportation of individuals declared foreigners and amenities on the detention centres in Assam.
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“Are you ready for some muhūrat”, the Supreme Court docket remarked on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) because it got here down closely on the Assam authorities for protecting folks declared as foreigners in detention centres indefinitely reasonably than deporting them.

A bench of justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan stated as soon as the detained individuals are held to be foreigners, they need to be deported instantly.


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“You may have refused to start out deportation saying their addresses should not recognized. Why ought to or not it’s our concern? You deport to their overseas nation. Are you ready for some muhurat [auspicious time]? “When you declare an individual foreigner, then you must take the subsequent logical step. You can not detain them until eternity. Article 21 of the Structure is there. There are a lot of foreigner detention centres in Assam. What number of have you ever deported?” the bench informed the counsel showing for the Assam authorities.

The highest courtroom directed the Assam authorities to start out inside two weeks the deportation of 63 individuals saved in detention centres and file a compliance affidavit.

The bench was listening to a plea in regards to the deportation of individuals declared foreigners and amenities on the detention centres in Assam.


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