After issuing an expulsion order on 19th November against five foreigners, the administration of the Sonitpur district in north-central Assam is looking for them, as confirmed by officials on Thursday (20th November). The absconders were declared as foreigners earlier by a Freigners Tribunal, after which they have been asked to remove themselves from India under the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950, in what is possibly the first known invocation of the law after the 1950s. The expulsion order issued by Ananda Kumar Das, Sonitpur’s District Commissioner, gave a 24-hour deadline to the foreigners to leave the country, but the foreigners disappeared soon after.

The absconders have been identified as Hanufa, Mariyam Nessa, Fatema, Monowara, and Amjad Ali, all from the Dhobokata vil

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