A 45-year-old woman was sent to a detention camp in eastern Assam’s Jorhat on Wednesday after being declared a non-citizen by a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT). Ms Roy’s lawyer Debabrata Pal said a bail application would be moved for her release from the detention centre, where she was sent after an ex-parte judgement. Her case began in 2010, but she failed to turn up for hearings there following which it was transferred to a Jorhat FT,” Mr. Pal said. Meanwhile, a 70-year-old man named Sona Munda, who had been in the Goalpara detention centre since 2014, died of cancer at a Guwahati hospital. “He was sent to the hospital when he was in the last stages of the disease.

Source: The Hindu June 12, 2019 16:18 UTC