Supreme Court to decide Rohingyas’ fate in August.

The Economic Times
July 10,2019


The Supreme Court will decide the fate of Rohingyas in India in August when it will examine a claim by the central government that illegal immigrants cannot be given refugee status. 

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who raised the objections raised by the government of India to grant community refugee status to Rohingyas in India, insisted that this was the “substantial question of the law” that the court must address first. The issue of granting them basic socio-economic rights or living conditions would arise after that, Mehta said. 

A three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, said it would examine these questions of the law at length in August. 

The Rohingyas had petitioned the court against their scheduled deportations and invoked the right to life and liberty enshrined in the Indian Constitution to prevent such deportations. 

The top court has since been dealing with multiple pleas filed by activists and NGOs and the affected people themselves seeking to have their basic rights protected in this country. 

Appearing for some of them, senior advocate Colin Gonsalves told the court that they were not economic migrants who had come here to enjoy a better life. Instead, these were people who were fleeing persecution and imminent death, he argued. 


Sending them back would mean certain death, he said. He said the courts have always protected refugees and must come to their rescue. 

Activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, in a separate petition, sought minimum living conditions in the camps housing them. 

The Rohingyas fled Myanmar in the wake of cleansing by the ruling Myanmarese junta in its Rakhine state. The Rohingya Muslims have historically been persecuted by the majority Buddhists in that country. 

Thousands of them have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh as well. The government of India has opposed any attempt to let them stay on in this country and has insisted that they go back to their country or any other. 





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