The Assam police has already completed the verification
of nationality of these immigrants and they have also given consent for their
deportation.
According to an estimate, around 40,000 Rohingya are now
living illegally in India and majority of them are staying in places like
Jammu, Hyderabad, Kanpur and outskirts of Delhi.
Guwahati: After deporting
seven Rohingiya Muslims, Assam in consultation with ministry of home affairs
has started process to deport at least 23 more Rohingiya Muslims, currently
languishing in three different detention camps in Assam, to Myanmar.
Pointing out that the Assam police has already completed
the verification of nationality of these immigrants, security sources, however,
said that these immigrants have also agreed and given consent for their
deportation back to their country.
The Myanmar government has also agreed to take them back
besides ensuring their safety, security sources said that these immigrants are
currently lodged in Silchar, Goalpara and Tezpur detention camps.
Security sources said that the Myanmarese authorities, in
consultation with ministry of home and external affairs, have completed the
verification of their home addresses. “We are in touch with the nodal agency in
the neighbouring country and the deportation will take place in a phased
manner,” security sources said, admitting that they are yet to fix up the date
for their deportation.
Meanwhile, the bordering guarding forces in Assam and
other frontier states have been kept on alert following an intelligence input
indicating exodus of substantial number of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to
Northeastern states about two weeks back.
Pointing out that border-guarding forces are on alert
since then, security sources however said that no such movement of Rohingya
either from Myanmar or Bangladesh was noticed. Security sources said that even
the railways was alerted to keep watch on possible movement of Rohingya from
the region to other parts of the country.
According to an estimate, around 40,000 Rohingya are now
living illegally in India and majority of them are staying in places like
Jammu, Hyderabad, Kanpur and outskirts of Delhi. Most of them came some time
back and the Government of India is yet to take a decision on their future.
Security sources however claimed that so far, the
Northeast was not facing any threat from possible mass exodus of Rohingya as it
would not be easy for them to enter the region from the locations where they
are staying in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Sources pointed out that in the past, a
few Rohingya managed to enter the region either through the India-Myanmar
border or through the international border in Bangladesh through Tripura. But
their number is not large and around 30 of them were caught in different parts
of Assam and are now in jail, security sources added.
Source: The Asian Age