Also read: 30 ‘foreigners’ dead in Assam’s detention centresAli is unlikely to be the last declared foreigner in any of Assam’s six detention centres. But on Thursday, he became the last to be released from the only detention centre in southern Assam’s Barak Valley as the beneficiary of a Supreme Court order. Also read | Forum seeks release of ‘declared foreigners’ from Assam detention centresThe jail houses the Silchar detention centre. The Silchar detention centre now has only four DFs – Dipali Das and Manindra Das of Cachar district, Suman Das of Hailakandi district and Munna Malakar of Dima Hasao. But the foreigner-declaring industry has to harass people to justify the expensive set-ups, which will be augmented by a stand-alone detention centre for 3,000 people at Agia (western Assam’s Goalpara district),” Mr Chakraborty said.

Source: The Hindu June 11, 2020 16:05 UTC