Guwahati: Assam police have arrested three advocates of Goalpara district in western Assam in an unprecedented case assaulting a judge of a Foreigners Tribunal and ransacking the office of the judge.
The arrested advocates have been identified as Shahjahan Ali, Omar Farooq and Nazrul Islam.
The advocates assaulted the judge Ajoy Kumar Phukon on Wednesday in protest against a verdict delivered by him that declared eight suspected illegal migrants as foreign nationals.
The advocates represented these eight persons in the case heard in the Tribunal.
The Director General of Assam Police, Mukesh Sahay, Special DGP (Law and Order) Kuladhar Chaliha, Additional Chief Secretary T Y Das and one of Judges of Gauhati High Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Thursday visited Goalpara to take stock of the unprecedented incident .
Goalpara is one of the districts in Assam that is bearing the brunt of illegal migration from Bangladesh.
One hundred Foreigners Tribunals are in operation in all the districts of Assam for expediting the process of detection of illegal migrants in the State where identity of the indigenous population is perceived to be under threat because of the swarming population of illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
Out of these 100 tribunals, 64 were set up in the year 2014. The Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam have since 1985 declared over 38000 persons as foreigners who had illegally entered Assam from Bangladesh.
Over 2,400 among them have been pushed back to Bangladesh while over 38,000 of them have been either absconding or are dead. Some of them are currently lodge in detention camps awaiting expulsion.
