Overview

• Justices Surya Kant, Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi asked the Centre to clarify whether speaking Bengali is being treated as a presumption of foreign nationality.
• The Court directed the Union government to file a detailed reply and place standard operating procedures on record within a week, listing the case for September 11.
• Calcutta High Court was urged to urgently hear habeas corpus petitions, including one involving a pregnant woman allegedly forced across the Bangladesh border.
• The Gujarat government was impleaded as a respondent as allegations span multiple states following a May 2 Home Ministry letter authorising inter-state checks and detentions.
• Solicitor General Tushar Mehta warned of 'systematic infiltration' and rejected language-based deportations, as the bench distinguished border repulsion from due process for those found inside India.