Woman Declared Indian Now Called Foreigner. Court Pulls Up Assam Tribunal
NDTV
Hasina Bhanu was lodged in the Tezpur detention camp inside the Tezpur jail since October 19, after being declared a foreigner by the tribunal in Darrang district.
A Foreigners' Tribunal's flip flop on a woman in Assam -- first declaring her an Indian and less than five years later a foreigner -- has irked the Gauhati High Court, which ordered her release from the detention camp and pulled up the tribunal.
Hasina Bhanu was lodged in the Tezpur detention camp inside the Tezpur jail since October 19, after being declared a foreigner by the tribunal in Darrang district.
She then went to court, contending that in August 2016, the same tribunal had said that she was not a foreigner or an illegal migrant.
But the Border Police branch of Shyampur Police station, which handled her case last time, had again sent her to the same tribunal.
