{"id":55859,"date":"2019-04-01T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=55859"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:53:48","slug":"detention-of-foreigners-supreme-court-directs-assam-chief-secretary-to-appear-before-it-on-apr-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/detention-of-foreigners-supreme-court-directs-assam-chief-secretary-to-appear-before-it-on-apr-8","title":{"rendered":"Detention of foreigners: Supreme Court directs Assam chief secretary to appear before it on Apr 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/sc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" data-attachment-id=\"55640\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/only-officers-with-minimum-service-of-6-months-left-should-be-considered-for-dgp-appointment-supreme-court\/sc-47\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/sc.jpg?fit=290%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"290,174\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/sc.jpg?fit=290%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/sc.jpg?resize=290%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/sc.jpg?w=290&amp;ssl=1 290w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/sc.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Monday voiced unhappiness over the inaction in a case relating to detention of foreigners in Assam and directed the state Chief Secretary to appear before it on April 8<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi termed the affidavit filed by the Assam government as an &#8220;exercise in futility&#8221; and wanted to know as to how many persons, who have been declared foreigners by the tribunal, have amalgamated with the local population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is the number of declared foreigners who have amalgamated with the local population. This is why we wanted your Chief Secretary to remain present,&#8221; the bench also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said while expressing displeasure over the non-appearance of officials.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court then directed the chief secretary to appear before it and posted the PIL filed by activist Harsh Mander on the issue for April 8.<\/p>\n<p>The bench was hearing a plea on the condition of detention centres in Assam and the prolonged detention of foreigners there.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the apex court had asked the central government to apprise it on several issues including as to how many functional detention centres are there in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Monday voiced unhappiness over the inaction in a case relating to detention of foreigners in Assam and directed the state Chief Secretary to appear before it on April 8 A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi termed the affidavit filed by the Assam government as an &#8220;exercise in futility&#8221; and wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[43428,44381,5569,2314],"class_list":["post-55859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-chief-justice-ranjan-gogoi","tag-detention-of-foreigners","tag-justice-deepak-gupta","tag-justice-sanjiv-khanna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Detention of foreigners: Supreme Court directs Assam chief secretary to appear before it on Apr 8 - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court Monday voiced unhappiness over the inaction in a case relating to detention of foreigners in Assam and directed the state Chief - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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