New Delhi, Sep. 1 (Agencies): The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a petition challenging the government’s decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants back to Myanmar as a violation of international human rights conventions. The plea filed by two Rohingya immigrants that they were facing persecution in Myanmar and that the decision to send them back was in violation of various international conventions. The Rohingyas who fled to India have settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan. But, he said, around 40,000 Rohingyas were staying in India illegally. The Centre had directed the state governments to set up a task force at district level to identify and deport foreign nationals staying illegally.

Source: The Telegraph September 01, 2017 08:48 UTC