Apex court seeks details of Rohingya refugees in response to a plea
The bench posted the matter for further hearing after 10 days.
The bench posted the matter for further hearing after 10 days.
He said Arvind Kejriwal’s party raised the issue back in 2022 too, and the party stuck to the same position.
The boat which reached Aceh, Indonesia on Monday afternoon had over 180 ethnic Rohingya men, women and children in it.
When the Myanmar military began a clearance operation against them in 2017, several members of the community were forced to flee.
Contending before a bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, Advocate Prashant Bhushan said that that the detained Rohingyas may be deported to Myanmar which is currently under Army's control and also seeing violence.
The WFP said it had spent around $20 million to assist the refugees in Bangladesh following the crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017.
Seven Rohingya men, who were lodged in Silchar Central Jail since 2012, were recently deported to Myanmar after the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the action.
Mahecic said that conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine were not conducive for safe dignified and sustainable return of stateless Rohingya refugees.
But the Myanmar government says it was fighting militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and was not targeting civilians.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, who have been held in Yangon's Insein prison since their arrest in December, were charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, a draconian British colonial-era law which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
