Maintaining tough stand, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the Centre will file an affidavit on the Rohingya…
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Maintaining tough stand, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the Centre will file an affidavit on the Rohingya immigrants in the Supreme Court on September 18.
Talking to the media on the sidelines of an event, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said: “We will file the affidavit on 18th (September).”
The Supreme Court has fixed Monday for hearing of a plea challenging the government’s decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants back to Myanmar.
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An affidavit on the issue, which the government later said was just a draft and being worked upon, was leaked after it was inadvertently served on the counsel for petitioner Muhammad Salimullah.
The Rohingya refugees, a persecuted community of Muslims from Myanmar have fled the country in large numbers.
Close to 40,000 Rohingya Muslims live in India after fleeing Myanmar over the past decade. Nearly 15,000 have received refugee documentation, according to the United Nations, but India wants to deport them all.
Since August 25, the number of Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh has reached 389,000, the UN said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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