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Both declared foreigners by FTs (foreign tribunals) in Assam and those who were arrested in Assam for illegally entering from Bangladesh by violating visa provisions

On Friday, 45 men, 21 women and two children who have been "declared foreigners" by the quasi-judicial Foreigner Tribunals and those convicted by judicial courts of visa violations were shifted to the detention centre.

Guwahati: Assam’s first detention centre, officially labelled as Transit Camp at Matia in Goalpara district, received the first batch of 68 people on Friday who were “declared foreigners” by the Foreigners’ Tribunal, authorities said.  Until the construction of Matia transit camp with a capacity of 3,000 detenus, the ‘illegal foreigners’ were lodged in six ‘detention centres’

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Assam NRC published last year not final, High Court told SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 04:49 PM IST Share Synopsis The affidavit was submitted as per an order by the Gauhati High Court in relation to a writ petition by one Rahima Begam against a Nalbari district Foreigners Tribunal order, declaring her a foreigner. Agencies Sarma said the matching of Family Tree, which would have been a full-proof method, was not carried out with due diligence in many cases. Guwahati: The historic Natio...

Necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 "ineligible persons" from the "supplementary list", state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma said in an affidavit.