A retired Army subedar, Mohammad Sanaullah, was detained, on Tuesday, in Assam after a foreigners’ tribunal declared him a “foreign national”. Sanaullah retired as subedar with the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers of Indian Army in August 2017.
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The Supreme Court said that foreigners who cannot be deported to their parent country should not be held in detention centres in Assam forever. The court also questioned the Assam government proposal to immediately start 1,000 foreigners’ tribunals all over the state.
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A mob in Assam’s Biswanath Charaili nearly lynched a Muslim man suspected of selling cow meat. The mob didn’t just stop there. The victim was also reportedly forced to eat pork, which is forbidden in Islam.
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An Election Commission official, on Monday, has declared that around 1.2 lakh voters in Assam will not be able to cast their votes in the Lok Sabha election as they have been identified as “D” (doubtful) voters.
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Two months after the Asom Gana Parishad walked out of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the two parties have reunited and will fight the Lok Sabha election together.
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In a second such incident in less than two weeks in the country, around 140 tea garden workers in Assam’s Golaghat district have lost their lives after drinking contaminated liquor and over 300 have been hospitalized.
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According to the law, the police may, without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person – a key requirement for forces to act effectively during fast-developing anti-terror or counterinsurgency operations.
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In BJP-ruled Assam, finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma raised the bar, on Wednesday, he offered 10 grams of gold, whose estimated price is around Rs 38,000, for brides from families with annual income of less than Rs 5 lakh.
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A fast-track court has convicted 15 members of National Democratic Front of Boroland – a Bodo terror outfit, including the chief of the group, Ranjan Daimary, for the serial blasts at six places on October 30, 2008, in Assam. The blasts killed more than 90 people and injured over 300.
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