Plea In Supreme Court To Deport "Rohingya-Bangladeshi Inflitrators" From West Bengal Within One Year

Directions have also been sought to identify and invoke the National Security Act against government employees, police personnel and security forces who allegedly have links with the "infiltration Mafias and help Rohingyas-Bangladeshis to infiltrate in West Bengal", and to confiscate their disproportionate assets.

Filed by Advocate Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay on behalf of Sangita Chakraborty, a human and civil rights activist, the plea further prays for a declaration that the sentence for the making of forged government documents such as PAN, AADHAAR, passport, ration card etc., shall run consecutively and not concurrently. Additionally, it seeks for the Centre to add a chapter to the Indian Penal Code to make illegal infiltration a cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable offence.

The petition submits that the cause of action accrued as election results were declared on 2^nd May, 2021, and "Rohingya-Bangladeshi infiltrators started beating, killing, heckling, looting, kidnapping, raping, burning the Houses of Hindus who voted for BJP". Many individuals, the plea submits, were rendered homeless and had their homes vandalized.

In wake of the violence and the vandalism, the plea states that the expeditious identification of infiltrators is more pressing now than ever.

"The injury caused to people is extremely large because two crore Rohingya-Bangladeshi infiltrators have not only changed the demography of Bengal but are the biggest threat to rule of law and internal security, particularly after the Assembly Election…It is not a matter of dealing with a religious group but the matter of identifying those who illegal crossed the border and continue to live in Bengal contrary to law and the Constitution", states the plea.

The plea goes on to contend that some political parties have been encouraging the infiltration with a view to build vote banks, and corrupt officials are bribed help.

"Recently many individuals were found providing forged citizenship certificates and other documents to Rohingya Bangladeshi infiltrators. We have chosen to remain virtually oblivious to the grave danger to national security arising from this unabated influx of infiltrators. The prophecy that except the Sibsagar district, the Assamese people will not find themselves at home in Assam, is well on its way to becoming true as reflected by demographic pattern in other States".

It has also been averred that the alleged infiltration has turned many districts into a Muslim-majority region, and that it will be a matter of time when a demand will be driven by fundamentalists to merge with Bangladesh.

"In this context, it is pertinent that Bangladesh has long discarded secularism and has chosen to become Islamic State. Loss of Assam-Bengal will severe the entire land mass of the North-East, from the rest of India and the rich natural resources of that region will be lost to the Nation".

Stating that the rights of the citizens of India would be seriously violated, the plea also underlines how providing facilities/privileges to illegal immigrants out of existing national resources would not only lead to a threat to national security, but also have an adverse impact on Indian citizens by depriving them of their legitimate share in the employment sector, subsidized housing, medical and educational facilities, which would in turn culminate in hostility toward immigrants.