High Court seeks status of West Bengal refugees in Assam
The Hindu
More than 400 people had fled violence in Cooch Behar district after the May 2 Assembly election results and are staying in makeshift camps in Assam’s border district Dhubri.
The Gauhati High Court has sought an update from the Centre and Assam government on the status of people after the declaration of the election results on May 2 and took refuge in the border areas of Assam. The Bench of Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak has also sought the status of the condition of the children in the makeshift camps in Assam from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in its June 1 directive. The court had heard two public interest litigation petitions on the issue of the internally-displaced persons forced to flee West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district and take refuge across the inter-State border in Assam’s Dhubri district. The petitions were filed by Abhijit Sarma based in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh and Ravi Chhedilal of Mumbai.More Related News