Supreme court rules deportation of seven Rohingyas staying in India illegally

A bench of Supreme Court of India led by the newly sworn in Chief justice Ranjan Gogoi today dismissed the petition for granting stay of the 7 Rohingya muslim illegal immigrants who are currently detained in Silcher Assam by the state government and directed that all of them should be handed over to the Myanmar authorities which has already accepted them as their citizens.

The apex courts verdict is in tune with the union government”s stand of ousting/ deporting all the 40 thousand Rohingya Muslims who’d fled from the Rohingya Muslim dominated Rakhine province in Myanmar after the incessant riots and the stringent action of Rohingya police and military to throw them out of Myanmar due to their anti government actions.

The United Nations human rights body had termed this action of the Myanmar government as anti muslim n ethinic cleansing. About 7 lakh muslims left Myanmar few months ago after the Myanmar government physically tortured, despicably killed women, children n old aged and finally compelled them to leave the country. There had been hundreds of casualties in Myanmar ethnic riots as well as during their fleeing in the boats that overturned killing several of them including families in the sea waters on way to Bangladesh.

While India has about 40 thousand illegal Rohingya refugees, the neighbouring Bangladesh has housed about more than 5 lakhs with rest of them having cladestinely taken shelter in various other countries of the globe in extremely traumatic n pathetic conditions even more worst than animals.

This judgement of the apex court is a shot in the arm for the BJP led NDA government who considers these Rohingyas as anti national elements posing immense risk to the unity n integrity of the country and is keenly desirous to repatriate them to Myanmar come what may.

The seven Rohingyas against whom the apex court has ruled to repatriate them to Myanmar have entered Assam in 2012 allegedly cladestinely n illegally n later on secured all the residential proofs like adhar cards, voting cards etc.

Similarly, thousands of other immigrants who’ve scattered themselves in Haryana, Mewat, Jammu n Kashmir, Rajasthan, UP, Bihar, Delhi and even in Uttarakhand etc. under extremely pitiable conditions are hiding their identities by amalgaming themselves with the local muslims having made their identity proofs by allegedly greasing the palms of the authorities concerned say sources.

About ten thousand Rohingya muslims have been living in the muslim dominated Jammu n Kashmir state. Even two days ago the union home minister Rajnath Singh has asked the authorities of various states n individuals to personally detect the Rohingya immigrants in their states and inform the authorities concerned so as to enable their deportation to Myanmar.

It may be recalled that the present political dispensation at the centre led by BJP is initiating the process for deporting or repatriating the illegal Rogingya immigrants to Myanmar under the foreigners act of 1946 under section 3 (2). However, this seems to be more a political design than actually deporting them enmass which actually seems not only difficult but also non feasible as the UN body has its own pressures on humanitarian aspect of the problem

The then government of Burma now Myanmar had in 1982 devised a law in view of their alleged militant activities under which the citizenship of the Rohingya muslims was abolished.

After the cessation of the Anglo Burma war in 1846, the Britishers brought hundreds of muslims as slaves n labourer. In 1948 when Burma got freedom, the Rohingyas multiplied their population and since then the communal disturbances between the Buddhists and Rohingya continued resulting in clashes, ethinic disturbances,riots and subsequent killings within both the communities with Rohingyas the most oppressed and distressed.

While opposing the supreme court judgement senior advocate and Swarajya India leader Prashant Bhushan said that the court has not taken care of the humanitarian aspect of the Rohingyas and their fundamental right to live, who were being compelled to leave the country to which the honourable justice replied that the court knows its responsibilities fully well and is also well aware about the human beings fundamental right to live which it need not to learn from others.

Political analysts say that this being the election year particularly in view of the polls likely to held in three states and the general elections of 2019 both the verdicts of the apex court delivered recently on Babri Masjid n Rohingya immigrants may lead to some advantages to the ruling party whose stand seems to have been vindicated on both these vital issues. What’s your take friends?