
IANS: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response
from the Centre and Tripura on a plea challenging 2015 amendment to the
Passport Rules and the Foreigner Order that allowed people of minority
community who have illegally entered India to stay back in India to
escape persecution in Bangladesh.
The bench of Chief Justice
Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna sought the response from the
Centre and Tripura on a plea by Tripura People’s Front contending that
the “uncontrolled influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh into
Tripura” has caused a huge demographic change.
The
petitioner has challenged Passport (Entry into India) Amendment Rulkes,
2015 and the Foreigners (Amendment) Order, 2015, both issued on
September 7, 2015.
Seeking the striking down of both the
amendment to Passport Rules and Foreigners Order, the petitioner
organisations have described it as “discriminatory, arbitrary and
illegal.”