Amritsar, Feb 5 (IANS) A US military aircraft carrying around 205 illegal immigrants, mostly from Punjab, who entered the US illegally and were deported on a C-17 plane that took off from San Antonio, Texas, is expected to land in Punjab’s Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon. This is the first round of deportation of illegal immigrants … Read more
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Assam government for keeping illegal immigrants in detention centres ‘indefinitely’ and not deporting them back for lack of their foreign addresses. A bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan told the Chief Secretary of Assam, who appeared virtually before the … Read more
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court has asked the government to explain “the idea” of keeping hundreds of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in detention camps for an indefinite period of time after they have completed their term of sentence under the Foreigners Act, 1946. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R Mahadevan also … Read more