In Gauhati HC, challenge the ‘pushback’ of Assam in Bangladesh: ‘Nothing in the law confirms this action’. Bharat News

The lawyer, who was present for the petitioner, said, “Mr. (AR) Bhuyan has presented the lawyer to be present for the petitioner that he has received detailed details of the persons who have been raised and subject to the alleged pushback policy adopted by the state. The person until 14 July.

Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who appeared virtually to the petitioners, argued that pushbacks were being operated without legal approval by the state government.

“Nothing in the law is this action is called pushback. Pushback is only relevant in some circumstances (in a few circumstances), if some aliens are coming to the area, and you catch them on the border and do not allow them to enter, where you do not have any entry policy, but those who are already subject to this limit, are not the process in which they are not only a process. Can go and be pushed to the border, ”he argued.

Assam Advocate General Devjit Saikia, appeared for the state, argued that the petition was “vague” and questioned whether AbMSU had a legal status to file a petition.

“Mr. Saikia, Learned Advocate General, has raised an issue of the stability of the immediate pilot,” the court said in its order.

In its petition, the ABMSU has prayed to the court to declare the ‘push-back’ policy adopted by the defendant of the state as “unconstitutional” and “illegal” and direct the state not to leave or push the state without following the “fixed process of law”.