Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced a significant policy shift, declaring that the state will immediately push back illegal immigrants into Bangladesh without waiting for formal trials — a move he says is backed by a recent Supreme Court observation.
Amid the Union Home Ministry's recent directive to identify and detect illegal immigrants, Assam Police have picked up scores of people over the weekend in what is being described as a “document verification” exercise.
Meghalaya Police, under the leadership of IPS Probationer Ashu Pant, has unearthed a wide-ranging criminal network aiding illegal immigration, identity forgery, and banking fraud across multiple Indian states.
These touts were using the Indo-Bangladesh border of Tripura for the Rohiyngaas to cross to the India side and use Assam as a corridor to move to other parts of the country.
