Overview
- District commissioners and senior police can issue 10-day notices to suspected persons to prove citizenship and then order removal within 24 hours if the evidence is judged insufficient.
- Unclear cases will be referred to Foreigners’ Tribunals, while cases already before the tribunals will continue under the existing process.
- Officials will record biometric and demographic data on the Foreigners Identification Portal, with non-compliant persons sent to holding centres or transferred to border forces for expulsion.
- Those detected near the zero line or within 12 hours of entry will be pushed back without further procedure, according to the SOP.
- The chief minister said Bangladesh has formally accepted only 466 tribunal-declared foreigners as its nationals even as Assam reports over 30,000 past pushbacks, a policy that rights groups say raises due-process concerns.