SC issues notice to ED on Kejriwal’s plea against arrest, next hearing on April 29
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta issued notice to the ED seeking its response on Kejriwal's plea by April 24.
ABOUT 30,000 Bru (formerly known as Reang) refugees from Mizoram, languishing in Tripura’s evacuee camps, continue to face an uncertain future They are part of nearly 45,000 who fled the state following the killing (by suspected Bru rebels) in October 1997 of a Mizo forest warden after which local youths swooped on their villages and triggered a mass exodus. Over the years, some of them have been repatriated, many voluntarily deserted the camps, and a few died of disease. Even efforts by the Supreme Court and human rights organisations have failed to spur the Mizoram government into undertaking expedious dispersal. The present chief minister, Lal Thanhawla, was in the saddle when the exodus took place. But before he could handle the situation he lost the assembly election and his successor, Mizo National Front leader Zoramthanga, also followed Lal Thanhawla’s policy ~ that only those who could prove their bona fides as Mizo residents and those whose names appeared in the 1995 voters’ lists would be taken back.
After the recent identification of some 22,000, the repariation procees was to resume, but latest reports suggest it will be a non-starter. It is clear that unless there is a marked change in the Mizoram government’s attitude ~ and it accepts the issue in its total perspective ~ the issue will remain a festering sore for the administration. Perhaps the Brus might have to depend on the BJP to come to their rescue. Already there are reports of the RSS asking BLP leaders to look into the matter, obviously for their own political gain. Since the BJP boasts that it solves people’s problems, it might act, depending on the outcome of the Manipur assembly election.
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