Declared foreigners who have completed 3 years in the camp to be released from 4 Nov. onwards

November 2: Assam government has constituted a Special Review Committee to review the conditions prevailing in the six detention centres of the state. A 3-member team of the review committee comprising of Devojyoti Mukherjee, DIG (Border), Assam Police, Barnali Sharma, IG of Prisons, Assam and retired district judge Justice Harmit Singh visited the Tezpur detention centre on 2 November, 2019.  They met the detainees & took stock of the prevailing situation.

Later on, the Chairman of the Special Review Committee, Devojyoti Mukherjee  informed that as per Supreme Court’s order, the declared foreigners who have completed three years in the camp will be released from 4 November, 2019 onwards. He further informed that the border police has submitted the first list of the detainees who will be released on Monday.

However, their release won’t be that smooth as expected. In order to get released, the detainees would have to produce two sureties of Rs. 1 lakh each, besides a verifiable address, in order to be set free. Sources in the Assam government said they will also be required to provide biometric information such as fingerprint and iris scans, besides photographs, and report to a police station in their locality every week.