GUWAHATI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has disclosed that 63,959 people have been declared ‘foreigners’ by Foreigners Tribunals in Assam in ‘ex parte proceedings’ from 1985 to 28 February 2019.
This means, when the tribunals passed orders declaring these people ‘foreigners’ and therefore liable to be sent to detention centres or be deported, they were neither present during the proceedings nor were they heard.
The revelations were made by the MHA on 2 July in response to a set of questions in the Lok Sabha from Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
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(Inputs from The Quint)