Overview

• Since May 23, Assam Police and Border Security Force units have detained scores of people declared foreigners by state tribunals and pushed many across the India-Bangladesh border under a February Supreme Court directive to expedite deportations.
• On May 29, the Gauhati High Court issued notices to the Assam government seeking details on the whereabouts of two Kamrup district brothers and other detainees, with the next hearing scheduled for June 4.
• The Supreme Court will hear a habeas corpus petition on June 2 filed by Yunus Ali challenging his mother’s detention amid allegations of covert “pushback” operations into Bangladesh.
• Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia has written to the Union external affairs minister, arguing that the detentions and informal deportations violate constitutional due process and international human rights norms.
• Families of the detained report being kept in the dark about their relatives’ status, and some have identified missing kin in videos appearing from Bangladesh’s no-man’s-land.