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| DB directs Home Secy to evolve mechanism for identification of all illegal immigrants | | PIL regarding shifting of illegal immigrants from Myanmar & Bangladesh | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 4: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Advocate Hunar Gupta, seeking direction to J&K for appointing and issue necessary directions to a former retired judge to hold an inquiry to identify all the illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh migrated in J&K.
A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi directed Secretary Home, J&K to consider the matter and to evolve a mechanism for the identification of all illegal immigrants and to prepare a list after identifying them. The DB directed that the said exercise may be carried out, most promptly, within a period of six weeks.
In the PIL it has been further seeking direction to state to shift all the illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh from State of J&K to any other place as no refugee Camp has ever been declared either by State of J&K or by United Nation in State of J&K also seeking direction for withdrawal of all benefits given to the illegal immigrants of Bangladeshi and Myanmar from the state exchequer and from the scheme and benefits meant for residents of State of J&K and for the last few years there is abrupt increase in number of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
As per the government version 13,400 Myanmari and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants are living in various areas of State of J&K. However, the actual figures are much more than the official figures. It is submitted that in 1982 the Myanmar Government declare them as non-national which led to their migration to neighbouring Bangladesh, Thailand and even Pakistan, however they were not welcomed in these countries as well. This led to their influx into India through porous border with Bangladesh.
The DB observed that this public interest litigation seeks some enquiry to be conducted to identify all illegal immigrants from Mayanmar and Bangladesh who have migrated from there and settled in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir apart from other reliefs which are not relevant for the time being.
The DB observed that one of the orders dated 24-05-2017 passed in the PIL indicates that at that time the Government had constituted a Group of Ministers to examine the various issues relating to illegal migrants from Mayanmar and Bangladesh in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Group of Ministers was supposed to take up the matter, examine it and to furnish a report thereof. But till date, nothing has come on record. In the meantime, the State of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated and the UT of J&K has been created.
The DB after hearing both the sides directed the Secretary Home, J&K to consider the matter and to evolve a mechanism for the identification of all illegal immigrants and to prepare a list after identifying them. The said exercise may be carried out, most promptly, within a period of six weeks. |
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