Overview

• The Gauhati High Court granted nephew Torap Ali visitation rights to see his uncles, Abu Bakkar Siddik and Akbar Ali, who were located at the 7th Assam Police Battalion in Kokrajhar.
• The bench directed the Assam government to file an affidavit by June 16 explaining how the brothers were apprehended on May 25 and why they were held without notice.
• The court orally assured that the two brothers will not face deportation before the next hearing.
• Abu Bakkar Siddik and Akbar Ali were declared foreigners by a tribunal in 2017 for failing to prove ancestral presence in India before March 24, 1971, and were released on bail in 2020 under a Supreme Court order.
• The Supreme Court has deferred a challenge to Assam’s push-back operations and issued notice in a habeas corpus case related to the detentions.