Supreme Court responding to the hearing of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act of Assam immigrants has cited that Bangladesh has a devastating impact on social, cultural and political rights of the original inhabitants of Assam and also agreed to the fact that the state is undoubtedly facing problem.
The citizen validation was examined by five judges of the Supreme Court on Tuesday which said, the validity of the law cannot be decided on the ground of subsequent infiltration in the state after 1971, which successive governments failed to stop.
The senior advocates said, “Assam Accord is discriminatory as it differentiates Assamese people from the people living in other states. An identically placed person who had entered any other state other than in Assam is liable to be detected and deported. It has adversely affected the political, social, cultural and economic life of the state.”
Also added, “We are not looking at that today. We are looking at a period which is frozen in time. We cannot adjudicate validity of Section 6A on the basis of what happened after development. If there has been growth in infiltration thereafter then, can that be a ground to examine the validity.”
