Bangladeshi infiltrators

Gogoi accused the Sarma government of unfairly targeting linguistic and religious minorities over his government's crackdown against illegal encroachments.

The confirmed 10 Bangladeshi nationals have been handed over the Border Security Force (BSF), who will now ensure their return to Bangladesh.

Sarma pointed out that his government had come under significant international pressure but refused to suspend the action.

The verification process in poll-bound Bihar has been concluded for 95.92% of the 7.90 crore voters.

The identity verification of the detainees is being done in compliance with the guidelines of the Union Home Ministry and the Odisha government.

Notably, a nationwide Operation Push-back is being conducted to detect, detain and deport illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants and Assam is leading the way.

Supreme Court recently said that the Immigrants (Expulsion From Assam) Act, 1950, is still valid, which says that govt can deport illegal foreigners without approaching courts

The demolition drive faced massive protests by local Muslims who came out in support of Azad Choudhary.

Interestingly, on one hand, Sibal asserted that the SP violated court order to illegally send the woman to Bangladesh, on the other, he claimed that the petitioner does not know for sure if the woman has actually been deported to Bangladesh or is still in India.

IAF planes are being used to take these illegal immigrants from various locations to the Bangladesh border from where they are sent back to their country.