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The story so far: at least seven inhabitants of West Bengal, who were pushed into Bangladesh on the border security force (BSF) for suspicion of Bangladesh, was brought back to India after the intervention of the state government. The main Minister Mamata Baerjee 25 said June that the inhabitants who speak in their native Bengal language are described as Bharatiya Janat in some states. Several people who were pushed from Assam to Bangladesh also returned because they were found to be Indians or that their citizenship cases were sub-judice.
Why did the matters escalate?
After changing the regime in Bangladesh in August 2024, the Ministry of the Interior of the Union was asked to detect Bangladesh, who illegally entered the country and lived here on counterfeit documents. The drive took over the momentum after the terrorist attack of Pahalgam in April and the subsequent “Sindoor operation”. The Ministry issued instructions for deportation of non -documented migrants, but in most cases there are pressures. About 2,500 suspicious Bangladeshs have been pushed back. On May 10, Chief Minister Assam Himanta Bisw Sarma said that the government decided to implement the “backward hit” mechanism to check infiltration instead of passing through the long -term process. Interior Minister AMIT Shah asked top intelligence officials to make an example of “infiltrators” by detecting, detaining and deporting them. In 2022, Mr. Shah asked officials at a meeting of the intelligence office to identify about 100 illegal migrants in every state, checked documents and arrested and deported. He asked them to continue the procedure, even if neighboring countries do not accept undocumented migrants.
What is the difference between deportation and pushback?
Deportation is a legal process that involves the detention and arrest of a foreigner of the suspect that he lives in India without documents or who has entered the country illegally. The case is submitted before the court and after the exhaustion of all legal ways that includes conviction by the court, the country to which the foreigner belongs to is contacted and deportation will take place after identity confirmation. Practs are not a legal procedure and there are no set rules. This occurs when the foreigner was caught by the border security force at the international border and, depending on the intensity of the case or at the discretion of the border staff, are either arrested to face the law or push back. Given that citizenship and foreigners are the subject of a list of trade unions, the Ministry of the Interior, which delegates the powers to deport foreigners to state government.
In 2024, the Ministry told the Jharkhand High Court that “the central government would not maintain independent federal police power exclusively devoted to the task of detection and deportation of illegal residence of foreigners, the measure was entrusted to the State Police in this respect.”
What is the law on immigrants (expulsion from Assam), 1950?
On June 9, Chief Minister Assam Himanta Bisw Sarma said that the state government is likely to enforce the 1950 law to identify and evict illegal foreigners, adding that the district commissioners are entitled to declare individuals for illegal immigrants and initiate evidence. The 1950 law was adopted by a parliament in the middle of municipal interference and violence after the division of India in 1947 and the creation of Eastern Pakistan (now Bangladesh) bordering on West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. The law states that it “extends to all of India”, but has a provisions specific to Assam.
Section 2 of the Act says that if the Union’s government is of the opinion that any person or a class of persons who normally resisted at any place outside India, it is harmful to the general public of India or any planned tribe in Assam, the Union’s government can direct such a person or class to be removed from India. and “give such other instructions in terms of his or removal from India or Assam, as it can consider the necessary or effective”.
What are the laws for foreigners?
Until April this year, matters concerning foreigners and immigration were submitted through laws “before constitutional periods” adopted during the First and World War II, which were the Act on Foreigners of 1946, Passport (Anti -Entering), 1920, Registration Act and Imigration Act, 2025 immigration, 2025, immigration, 2025 Act on Immigration, 2025, Immigration Act, 2025, Act on Immigration, 2025, Act on Immigration, 2025, Act on Immigration, 2025, Act on Immigration, 2025, Act on Immigration, 2025 Act on Immigration, Act on Immigration, 2025, Act on Immigration (Immigration Act). Old laws.
Unlike Pakistan and Bangladesh borders, the rules of the movement of people along Nepal and Myanmar differ. Nepal has a free agreement with India and the free movement regime (FMR), which allows the movement of people staying up to 10 km on both sides, along the boundary of India-Myanmar. After ethnic violence in May 2023 in manipure, the Ministry decided to fence the entire 1,643 km of the Myanmar border in 2024 in the next 10 years. In February 2021, after the publication of a military coup in Myanmar, more than 40,000 refugees from Myanmar belonging to the ethnic group Brady, who are closely related to the mizo community, went to Mizoram. On March 10, 2021, MHA sent a letter to the state government to Nagaland, Arunacal Pradesh, Manipur and Mizoram that refugees should be identified and deported and that state governments do not have powers to grant a “refugee” because India is not a signator of the 1951 refugee. They continue to live.
What is behind this recent ride?
Since April 22, the police attack in Pahalgam has intensified the effort to detect non -documented migrants. Initially, trains were taken to the border neighborhoods and then pushed the BSF to Bangladesh. In some cases, migrants were selected from Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, summer aircraft to Agartala in Tripura and transported by BSF staff on the Bangladeshi border. Police and BSF record biometrics and photographs of undocumented migrants. It should be noted that BSF has never recognized any of the pushbacks. The Ministry asked states to verify the claims of undocumented migrants who claim the Indian nationality, after which the district judges are to send a report within 30 days, which would fail to deported a regional registration officer of foreigners.
In 2022, the Indian Unique Identification Office was asked to maintain a “negative list” that prevented non -documentary migrants from obtaining identity documents in the future.
Published – 29. June 2025 01:00
