193 declared foreigners forced into Bangladesh in two years, says Himanta

way2barak, July 15: A total of 193 persons declared foreigners by Assam’s tribunals have been forced into Bangladesh in the last two years, according to data submitted by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Assembly on Monday.

The figure includes an infant girl who was forced across the border with her mother, who had been declared a foreigner.

Of the 193 persons, 67 were “expelled” under the 1950 Immigrants Expulsion from Assam Act. The Act empowers district commissioners and senior superintendents of police to expel “illegal migrants” from the state by bypassing the foreigners tribunals.