A woman from Golaghat district of Assam was detained by the police, allegedly taken by security forces to the Bangladesh border, and asked to cross – before the authorities realized that there was an error in her case and brought her back.
Rahima Begum (50) is one of the many people detained in Assam in the last few weeks, as part of the ongoing rift on those who have been declared foreigners by the State Foreign Tribunal (FTS). According to his lawyer, a foreign tribunal ruled last month that Begum’s family had entered India before March 25, 1971, a cut-off date for citizenship in Assam.
On Friday, calling an order of Supreme Court, Chief Minister Himant Biswa Sarma confirmed The state is carrying forward foreigners declared across the international border in Bangladesh.
Begum, who returned home to her family in 2 Padumoni village in Golghat on Friday evening, alleged that she was “pushed into Bangladesh” with a group of people on Tuesday night.
“On Sunday morning (May 25) at around 4 pm, when we were still sleeping, the police came to our house and asked me to report to the police station to answer some questions. After spending the morning, they took me to the Superintendent of Police of the office of the police office with some other people. I gathered my documents, and she said that she used to work well.
“Our two daughters were there, and they saw that her mother had taken her mother at night. But no one told us where she was these days,” her husband Malek Ali said.
He said, “Late Tuesday night, they put us in some cars and took us to Seema.” “The security forces with us gave us some Bangladeshi currency, asked us not to cross and return. These were all paddy fields that were with mud and water to our knees. We did not know what to do; we just went between the paddy fields until we reached a village.
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He said, “We stood in the paddy field all day to drink water and drink water from it because we could not go both sides.” “(On Thursday evening), Indian side forces called us back, took the currency of Bangladesh, put us in vehicles and took us to Kokrajhar. I don’t know what happened to the rest of the people, but I was brought to Golaghat. I don’t know why this happened to me; I completed all my papers.
Her husband received a call to take from Golaghat Town on Friday afternoon.
BSF Guwahati Frontier and Golaghat SP Rajan Singh did not respond to calls and messages demanding a comment.
Advocate Lipika Deb, who took over the case of Begum in Jorhat feet, said that the family called her on Sunday, stating that she was taken away with other people suspected of foreigners.
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According to Deb, the tribunal declared him as a ‘post-stream’, which is used to refer to cases in which entering India is said to be between January 1, 1966 and March 25, 1971, after which the person has been an ordinary resident of Assam, where the person has to be registered with the relevant foreign registration. According to the Act, the name of such a person will be killed by electoral rolls for 10 years, but during that time he will have the same rights and responsibilities as a citizen of India. ” At the end of the period, he would be “considered a citizen of India for all purposes.”
“After investigating with the police and the Frok office in Zorhat, where we had registered it, we found that there was a mismatch in a number of registration numbers in his certificate. We contacted the SP about mismatch, and now she is back.
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