The Assam government has used the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950, for the first time and five “declared foreigners” have been asked to leave India within 24 hours.

The Sonitpur district administration in Assam has issued orders to the people who were declared foreigners by the foreigners tribunal in 2024. The Assam government had approved the implementation of the Act earlier this year.

According to a report by The Indian Express , the Assam police said that five people who were identified as residents of Dhobokata village are currently “absconding”.

According to the expulsion orders, signed by deputy commissioner Ananda Kumar Das, the border police had referred cases against the five, comprising four women and a man from two families, to the Sonitpur Foreigners Tribunal

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