Rohingya Case: India Can't Be Capital For Illegal Immigrants, Centre Tells Sureme Court

The plea also sought direction to Ministry of Home Affairs to expeditiously grant refugee identification cards through the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) for Rohingya refugees in informal camps.

The country cannot be the capital for illegal immigrants, the Centre told the Supreme Court which on Friday reserved order on a fresh plea seeking directions for immediate release of detained Rohingya refugees in Jammu and restrain the government from implementing any order deporting them to Myanmar. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde refused to hear at this stage the intervention application filed by United Nations special rapporteur in the matter. We will not hear you today. There is serious objection to it, the bench told the counsel appearing for the UN special rapporteur. We are closing it for order, said the bench, which also comprised Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, after hearing submissions on the fresh plea.