Supreme Court pulls up govt on illegal migrants issue
The court also sought the following details from Assam government for the past 10 years.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Centre and Assam described as “joke” the steps taken so far by the authorities in tackling the menace of “external aggression” in Assam through large-scale influx of illegal migrants.
A three-judge bench comprising the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjay Kishan Kaul expressed dissatisfaction over the steps taken in the last few years to check the entry of illegal migrants.
The CJI told solicitor General Tushar Mehta “State of Assam is facing external aggression. We would like to know what steps Government of India had taken to meet the external aggression. We want to know how you are going to tackle the problem? You are treating the issue as joke.”
The court also sought the following details from Assam government for the past 10 years relating to: number of persons declared as foreigners by the various foreigners’ tribunals among others.