West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said that 4,800 alleged undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh who are not eligible for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act have been deported in the past month, The Hindu reported.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader said that 836 more “illegal infiltrators” who are currently in holding centres will soon be deported to Bangladesh.
The holding centres were ordered to be set by the state government on May 22 for alleged undocumented immigrants and for released foreign prisoners awaiting deportation or repatriation.
“There is a law of the government of India under which they [undocumented immigrants] can be handed over to the Border Security Force instead of being sent to prisons,” The Hindu quoted Adhikari as saying on Sunday. “This law was used by other states, but [in West Bengal], they were treated as guests and lodged in prisons, fed our food, given our clothes and treated with our medicines.”
The chief minister noted that the new BJP government, in its first cabinet meeting, approved the transfer of land to the Border Security Force so that it could carry out border fencing, The Telegraph reported.
“Border security is our top priority,” the newspaper quoted him as saying. “That is why we have handed over nearly 100 km of land to the BSF for fencing work out...
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