Last ‘foreigner’ walks out of Assam detention centre
The Hindu
Manindra Das of Cachar district was tagged a D-voter in 2015 and declared a foreigner in May 2019.
The last “foreigner” has walked out of one of six detention centres in Assam, leaving about 170 more to be released from the other five. Manindra Das was tagged a ‘D-voter’ in 2015 and later declared a “foreigner” in a one-sided decision by a Foreigners’ Tribunal. He was lodged in the detention centre within Silchar Central Jail in southern Assam’s Barak Valley. A D-voter, or doubtful voter, is a category of voters in Assam disenfranchised by the government allegedly for lacking proper citizenship credentials.
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