Assam Stops Foreigners' Tribunals From Passing "Consequential Orders"
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The Foreigners Tribunals, quasi-judicial bodies unique to only Assam, are assigned to declare an individual foreigner or not
The Assam government has restricted the Foreigners Tribunal from passing "consequential orders" as the members do not have the authority and can only make "opinion" on a case. The Political (B) Department of the Assam government passed the order on September 4 after viewing with "seriousness the passing of consequential directions/orders by learned members while rendering opinion". The Political (B) Department deals with the Foreigners' Tribunals (FTs), National Register of Citizens (NRC), official language implementation and state-level national Integration committee. The deputy secretary of the department, Parijat Bhuyan, in her order said they came to this view after the state judicial department checked "randomly selected samples of opinions" rendered by FTs members during a "performance assessment exercise".More Related News