Guwahati, July 25 (IBNS): While the updation process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is going on in Assam to detect the illegal foreigners and the Supreme Court has directed the NRC authority to publish the final NRC by August 31, the Assam government on Thursday has deported 30 Bangladeshi nationals to Bangladesh.
The 30 Bangladeshi nationals including three women have been deported through legal procedures from International border at Sutarkandi in Karimganj district to Bangladesh.
According to the reports, the Bangladeshi nationals had entered into India without valid documents from different parts of Assam at different times.
The Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from Sonitpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Golaghat, Guwahati, Baksa, Morigaon, Hojai, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Mankachar, Dhemaji, Karbi Anglong, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Udalguri districts and they were lodged at different detention camps in the state in past 2-5 years.
The Bangladeshi nationals are Nurul Alam, Abdul Kalam Azad, Nahidul Haque, Babul Sardar, Md. Javed, Ariful Hakim, Mamin Alam, Mazahar Mullah, Saddam Hussain, Jahangir Alam (1), Fazar Ali Mullah, Ajibor Piyada, Kartik Chandra Seal, Younis Ali, Nur Mahammad Gaji, Sushitra Biswas, Saleha Akhtar, Ashama Begum, Abdul Kuddus, Nurul Amin, Chand Miya, Ilias Ali, Jahangir Alam (2), Lakhan Chakrabarty, Jahangir Alam (3), Abdul Kalam Mullah, Md. Abdullah, Abdul Kashim, Abdul Karim and Ashish Das.
Among them some were residing in Assam in past several years and the Foreigners’ Tribunals had declared them illegal foreigners.
It is to be mentioned that, on May 4 last, the Assam government had deported 20 Bangladeshi nationals to their own country.
“After completing all formalities and as per direction of the government we have deported 30 Bangladeshi nationals to Bangladesh. All 30 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested by police from 18 districts of Assam in past times and they lodged at different detention camps,” a police officer said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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