Supreme Court refuses stay on Rohingya deportation, questions United Nations report

SC rejects petition alleging India abandoned 43 Rohingya refugees at sea, calls claims baseless; next hearing on July 31. Read more on Dynamite News

New Delhi: The Supreme Court recently dismissed the allegation of abandoning 43 Rohingya refugees in international waters without any concrete evidence, reports Dynamite News correspondent.

The petitioner, Mohammad Ismail, had claimed that the Indian government had forcibly abandoned these refugees in the sea to deport them to Myanmar, and these people reached Myanmar wearing life jackets.

On this, the Supreme Court termed these allegations as fictitious and dismissed the petition. The court said that the next hearing on this matter will be on July 31, and then it will be considered in detail.

The case was heard by a two-judge bench headed by Justice Surya Kant. Justice Surya Kant asked the petitioner's lawyer, Colin Gonsalves, "Was the petitioner personally present there?"

He also questioned that if this was true, then how did the petitioner return to Delhi? Apart from this, the justice also said that such allegations only seem like fabricated stories, which are being presented without any concrete evidence.

At the same time, Gonsalves cited the United Nations report, which said that these refugees should not be forcibly deported, as they have been considered victim refugees.

On this, Justice Surya Kant said that "We will also give our opinion on this report, but this is an attempt at external interference in the affairs of India, which is related to our security and sovereignty."

The lawyer also argued that the Government of India had earlier given citizenship to the Chakma refugees of Bangladesh, but the judge called it the policy of the government and said that there is nothing wrong in this matter.

In the end, Justice Surya Kant made it clear that the decision on the petitions related to Rohingya has already been given by a bench of three judges, and on May 8, they refused to stay the action of the government.

Now the hearing of this case will be held on July 31, and then its next decision will be taken. This case is about the deportation of Rohingya refugees and a serious issue related to the security and sovereignty of India.

The Supreme Court has made it clear that in such cases no claim can be accepted without solid evidence.