Public sentiment presents a dichotomy; while a faction supports the Supreme Court's ruling as a protective measure for Bengali-speaking individuals against discrimination, another significant group expresses anger regarding deportation practices, highlighting human rights violations and a lack of trust in government actions. The discussion reflects deep polarization, with themes of nationalism and concerns for individual rights taking center stage.

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Why was this case even picked up so soon? Who is funding the SC lawyers to fight this case? 

Just unbelievable system, India is still a poor country, we have kids with malnutrition and we have to care of 20 million illegal Bangladeshis too??

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mr_walnutt

Why in the world is this case even existing at this point ?
Not at all a topic of discussion, bullshit.

YoghurtLegitimate392

Wth? Why they even picked up this case in the very first place??

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Competitive-Fox843

After false 498a, DV, rape cases.

"You are a Bangladeshi" is next big scheme, dalla police will ask you to pay 6 lakhs bribe to prove that you are a citizen, else you will be tortured, detained, your family will be asked to arrange for 6 lakhs.

If they fail to pay bribe, you will be taken to Bangladesh border and dumped inside Bangladesh using a JCB.

Bharat Mata Ki Jai.

msaussieandmrravana

I'm curious to see if this gets any traction on here. This should infuriate people. Especially considering how angry Indians, both people and the administration, had gotten at the mistreatment of Indian deportees in other countries.

Meanwhile here you have citizens being rounded up, given absolutely no due process, and just flung across the border. India wants to complain about "infiltration" and "illegal migration" meanwhile it just dumps people with no clear documentation of origins willy nilly into Bangladesh?

The people involved need to be arrested, and they need to be tried for treason. And if they received orders from above, then it's their superiors who need to be tried. It's not going to happen ofcourse. And the judiciary will pontificate about it while doing nothing. But that's what needs to be done.

boringhistoryfan

People cared for racism in other countries because they are aspiring to go out there. This threaten their dream.

#But no outrage on Manipur because who cares about those beef eating tribals. They don't care about the bengali muslims too because they hate other religions. They hate Dalits. They hates scheduled castes. Hates scheduled tribes. Hates poor people. Indians are all about Hatred for the others.

Mountain-Finish-1992

Life_Machine_9694

Punjabi language is spoken in Pakistan. Tamil language is spoken in Sri Lanka. What's the guarantee they will not go after people who speak Punjabi and Tamil? What kind of fascism it is to suspect and detain people based on the language they speak. How hard it is for an illegal Bangladeshi to learn and speak Hindi without any vernacular if he really wants to? So, he will not be suspected and detained I guess because he does not speak Bengali.

SweetlyNoxious

Very interesting that in order to find illegal immigrants with Bangladeshi documents they are willing to tear up the documents of Indian citizens as part of their coercion tactics.

Professional-Tear996

So we get ICE for Bengalis here. Great, like them they are also detaining legal Citizens.

RickRussel

Mass detaining citizens of your own country to pick out 10 Bangladeshis,fuck bjp man

Beetlenut-symphony57

If only ten is confirmed wht there were more arrwsts and harassment earlier. Human and it's existence has no value

prof_devilsadvocate3

What percentage of the hundreds subjected to state torture for the crime of speaking bangla while being poor and/or Muslim were found to be illegal?

From very vocal people here all blue color jobs in gurgaon are done by Bangladeshis

Apparently you can tell who is bharotio bangali and who is not by hearing them speak.

Even when you yourself fall in that special “hamar bengoli ta thik Ashe na”

barmanrags

Lordofshadow_SA

How many of you have gone to murshidabad? Just go there how many of you know or have idea what happend in last couple of months in murshidabad? Your own neighborhood is being turned over and still sitting in denial? But you would have issues coming from a bihari and odia. Speak up now. your own leader says why they will come as bangladesh is more developed? Why you people close your eyes when there is an issue? Just go out from kolkata and your city is filled with illegal immigrants and who is paying ofcourse we as a taxpayer. Also whoever is gonna say shitty thing please know I m a Bengali in your own language probasi bengali.

luckyjelly

Knowledgable_goof

পর্বতের মূষিক প্রসব

mukherjee4u

It's bad but who gave citizenship to bangaldeshi muslims illegals and allowed them here?. Congress and CPIM did that to increase the votebank ..as per wikileaks.

Bengali muslims could have avoided all this had they not taken part in the pakistan movement... By killing hindus of Calcutta and naokholi they forced a partition and continue to oppose Hindus and india despite 1971

Jealous_Emu4221

Aww the wire lol.. The most honest news agency.. Must be true 🤡

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Naive-Contact-7098

Seems suspicious the first sentence contradicts  rest of the article, flagged in 97, declared in 2019 making it 22 years so how much more due process has to be followed exactly?

Level-Negotiation721

eight were declared foreigners by tribunals without hearing them, and at least seven were declared foreigners despite presenting certificates issued by their village headman, land deeds and witness statements that they were Indian. Three of them were declared foreigners over minor discrepancies in dates. And at least eight were listed as Indian citizens in the National Register of Citizens published in 2019.


What's evidence of being "Indian"?
Tomorrow anytime anyone anywhere in India can be deported as a "Foreigner" because there's no evidence that anyone in India is Indian as certificate issued in India are not evidence,  Aadhaar is not evidence,  Passport is not evidence, drivers license is not evidence, property documents is not evidence,  voters ID is not evidence, ration card is not evidence. 

The only evidence is BJ.PARTY membership. 
#JSR
#BMKJ

Sudden-Check-9634

Indians who are on visas in the USA or have relatives living there are shocked by Trump's deportations without due process. But they will whole heartedly support this, I'm sure. Not saying either is right or wrong. Only saying people should be consistent. Due process is for everyone's good. If we allow that concept to be eroded to the point of nullity, then we are going to be caught in the crossfire soon enough ourselves.  
  
&gt; The Indian administration's recent push to deport the DFNs to a country that is unlikely to accept them because there is no deportation treaty between India and Bangladesh has left them in limbo. They are not recorded as citizens of that country, effectively making them stateless.  
  
This should worry anyone. You are making these people stateless by just pushing them over the border into Bangladesh without due process. This is cruel, imo.

Bangers_n_Mashallah

DaraMala5541

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Ajabha Khatun, 56, was marked a Doubtful voter in 1997 and was declared a foreigner in 2019 by a tribunal. Currently in detention at the Matia Transit Camp, she now faces deportation to Bangladesh along with 62 other Bengali-speaking Muslims

As the BJP government of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam plans to deport 63 Bengali speaking Muslims declared to be foreigners, Article 14 found that at least eight were declared foreigners by tribunals without hearing them, and at least seven were declared foreigners despite presenting certificates issued by their village headman, land deeds and witness statements that they were Indian. Three of them were declared foreigners over minor discrepancies in dates. And at least eight were listed as Indian citizens in the National Register of Citizens published in 2019.

Guwahati, Assam: It was another day of navigating the fear of being arrested for 46-year-old Monowara Khatun. 

Since she was declared a “foreigner” in 2022 by a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) in her home district of Barpeta, some 90 km west of Assam’s capital, Guwahati, her family of five has rarely breathed relief.

First established in 1964, the hundred Foreigner Tribunals—that only exist in Assam—are quasi-judicial bodies that determine a person's citizenship status.

Khatun’s fear, however, was soon realised. 

In the early hours of 20 December 2024, hours before her case was to be heard in the morning before the Gauhati High Court, the Barpeta police arrived at her home in the riverine Satrakanara village to arrest her. 

“She was taken away to the local police station almost instantly, leaving no time for our three children to say goodbye,” Asur Uddin, Khatun’s husband, said over the phone. 

The same day, Khatun, along with 23 others, was sent to the sprawling transit camp at Matia, on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Goalpara district, which lies on the south-western border of Barpeta, according to a government affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on 3 February 2025. 

The “transit camp”—a detention facility that houses “declared foreigners” and “illegal immigrants” until they can be deported—is India's largest detention centre, spread across 25 bighas (roughly 16 acres) of land, since it opened in January 2023.

This was the second large-scale transportation of declared “foreigners” from Barpeta to the Rs 64-crore detention facility in 2024.

Khatun is one of 63 Bengali-speaking Muslims that the tribunals have identified as DFNs (declared foreign nationals) who currently face deportation to Bangladesh.

In an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court on 20 March 2025, the Assam government said that of the 63 DFNs identified between 31 October 2023 to 3 Feb 2025, 33 of them have claimed that they are Indian nationals who were wrongly declared foreigners by FTs—29 with the Gauhati High Court and four with the Supreme Court challenging the tribunal and High Court orders against their citizenship status.

Article 14 found, through looking at 15 FT orders and 19 High Court orders upholding the FT orders—covering 34 people—that at least eight declared foreigners without their presence at the tribunals and at least seven were declared foreigners despite presenting certificates issued by their village headman, land deeds and witness statements that they were Indian. 

Three of them were declared foreigners over minor discrepancies in dates, their families claimed. The FT orders accessed by Article 14 backed up this claim. 

Families of two DFNs claimed that police had fabricated Bangladeshi addresses for them. 

Article 14 checked the National Register of Citizens (NRC)—and found that at least eight were listed as Indian citizens in the final draft list published in 2019. 

The 1946 Foreigners Act, places the burden of proving citizenship on individuals accused of being foreigners, rather than the state, and many cannot afford to do so.

“Challenging [Foreigners] tribunal cases in Assam is a costly affair,” an advocate representing some of the 63 DFNs at the Gauhati High Court told Article 14. “The poor fighting such cases find it difficult to access legal aid.”

At least eight of them are currently in detention in the Matia camp, while the 55 are on conditional bail, having been released between October 2023 and May 2025.

DNFs released on conditional bail are required to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5000, report to their local police station once a week and have their biometrics—iris scans and fingerprints—recorded.

The Indian administration's recent push to deport the DFNs to a country that is unlikely to accept them because there is no deportation treaty between India and Bangladesh has left them in limbo. They are not recorded as citizens of that country, effectively making them stateless.

Those Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly “pushed back” to Bangladesh from Assam in the recent crackdown are an older batch of DFNs. Their entry into Bangladesh was resisted by the Border Guard Bangladesh, leaving them trapped in no-man’s land, as these people identified themselves as Indian nationals. (Those pushed back were not accepted by Bangladesh, left on the border, with BSF bringing at least 4 people home.)

In a hearing on 4 February 2025, while arguing in the Supreme Court for Rajendra Das, a DFN facing deportation, senior advocate Colin Gonzalves said Bangladesh does not accept DFNs as citizens unless they complete their national verification status (NSV).

NSV is a diplomatic process in which the state government shares information about a suspected foreign citizen with the MEA, which then verifies their citizenship status with their home country's high commission, clearing the ground for deportation.

opinion_discarder

If they are truly illegal immigrant from Bangladesh then why doesn't India officially hands them over to Bangladesh. But no, it unlawfully keeps them in prisons and then pushes them over Bangladesh borders at the dead of nights. Real Chad move by India. Always playing the bully role in subcontinent

Sure, blame Muslims for everything even when they didn't do anything 
[https://zeenews.india.com/india/building-mosques-occupying-indigenous-peoples-land-assam-cm-sarma-on-minorities-vs-satra-row-2914005.html](https://zeenews.india.com/india/building-mosques-occupying-indigenous-peoples-land-assam-cm-sarma-on-minorities-vs-satra-row-2914005.html)

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