From Our Special Correspondent
GUWAHATI: The All Assam Minority Students’ Union has demanded a judicial probe into the deaths of declared foreigners in the detention camps of Assam.
The students union said that so far 27 detainees have lost their lives at the camps.
AAMSU alleged that the deaths of people languishing at the detention centres were not natural but “pre-planned murders” caused by depriving the inmates of food at regular intervals and requisite medical treatment, which can only be proved if an impartial inquiry is instituted.
In a statement here on Tuesday, the students union said that persons declared by tribunals as foreigners should be deported to their respective countries rather than being kept “captive” and left to die at the detention camps.
The students union further questioned the rationale of keeping the declared foreigners away from their family members and later forcibly handing the bodies of the detainees who die at the camps.
MLA charge
Meanwhile, Nandita Das, the MLA of Boko constituency and president of Assam Pradesh Mahila Congress met the bereaved family of Falu Das, who died at a detention camp on October 25.
The family of Das, of Chotemari village in Nalbari, had refused to accept the body, as the members claim he was declared a foreigner despite having legal documents to prove his citizenship. She further alleged that the government was neglecting the detainees and that the administration had deprived Falu Das of medical treatment despite pleas from his family.