No anti-national actions by 12 Rohingya refugees in state: Kerala tells SC

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Kerala authorities has advised the Supreme Court that at current there are 12 Rohingya refugees current within the State and no anti-national actions together with their affiliation with Pakistan’s ISI or the Islamic State or Caliphate (ISIS) has been reported thus far.

The state made the submission in response to a PIL filed by BJP chief and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay in search of instructions to the Centre and the states to establish, detain and deport all of the unlawful migrants and infiltrators together with Bangladeshis and Rohingyas.

Kerala authorities in an affidavit mentioned the refugees current within the state comprise two households, together with two new child infants, who’re residing at Muttil within the Wayanad district.

It mentioned, “so far, no instances of Rohingyas being associated with ISI or ISIS were reported in the state.”

Kerala authorities additionally submitted that over the past 5 years, no case below the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956, has been reported in opposition to Rohingyas or unlawful Bangladesh immigrants within the state.

The affidavit additional submitted that in 2015, Wayanad Muslim Orphanage authorities (WMO), an NGO, introduced the Rohingyan Refugees to Bafaqi Home, Mananthavady, Wayanad.

As per the Standard Operating Procedure issued by MHA on “infiltration of Rohihyans into the Country”, their Biometric and Biographic particulars have been uploaded within the Government e-Portal besides one new child born in December 2019, it mentioned.

At the time of the arrival of those Rohingyas in Kerala, they possessed UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Cards, it mentioned, including that renewal of playing cards of 4 Rohingyans, belonging to 1 household, nevertheless, are pending as they’re unable to go to Chennai, attributable to monetary hardships and COVID-19 pandemic scenario.

The affidavit mentioned that directions have been given to District Police Chief, Wayanad to take care of a detailed watch on Rohingyan refugees.

About unlawful migrants, the state is taking concrete steps to detect the overstaying foreigners who used cast journey paperwork or surreptitiously entered into the nation and a committee has been constituted to detect foreigners who’ve been illegally overstaying in India since January 1, 2011, it added.

Earlier, the Karnataka authorities had advised the Supreme Court that it will “scrupulously” comply with the orders to be handed on the PIL.

Upadhyay, in his PIL, has sought a course to the Centre and the states to “amend respective laws to make illegal immigration and infiltration a cognizable, non-bailable and con-compoundable offence”.

“The large-scale illegal migrants, particularly from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have not only threatened the demographic structure of bordering districts but seriously impaired security and national integration,” the plea mentioned.

Upadhyay’s plea alleged there was an organised inflow of unlawful migrants from Myanmar by means of brokers and touts through West Bengal, Tripura, and Guwahati.

“This situation is seriously harming the national security of the country,” the plea mentioned.

Earlier, the apex courtroom, on April 8, had made it clear that Rohingyas, who’ve been detained in Jammu, shall not be deported to Myanmar except the process prescribed for such deportation is adopted by the authorities.

The bench had mentioned it’s true that rights assured below Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution can be found to all of the individuals who could or might not be residents however the proper to not be deported is “ancillary or concomitant” to the proper to reside or settle in any a part of India.

While Article 14 offers with equality earlier than the regulation, Article 21 offers with the safety of life and private liberty.

The order was handed on an utility in search of the discharge of detained Rohingya refugees and likewise a course to the Centre to not deport those that have been detained within the sub-jail in Jammu.

The Centre had earlier opposed the plea saying the nation can’t be the “capital” for unlawful immigrants.

Violent assaults allegedly by the Myanmar military have led to an exodus of Rohingya tribals from the western Rakhine state in that nation to India and Bangladesh.

Many of them, who had fled to India after the sooner spate of violence, have settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR, and Rajasthan.