Supreme Court of India(SCI)tells NDA Govt to fence entire Bangladesh border Wednesday Dec 17,2014

 

In a landmark directive aimed at boosting security in five Indian states bordering Bangladesh, the Supreme Court on Wednesday Dec 17,2014 asked the Centre to fence the entire stretch of the 4,096-km international boundary, and take immediate steps to deport illegal migrants from the country.

As of now, only 65% of the border is fenced.
 

Fence On India-Bangladesh Border, Agartala, Tripura, India

The order comes at a time when the Border Security Force (BSF) has raised an alarm over the increasing number of Islamic militants infiltrating the porous border. 

The BSF raised the issue soon after the October 2,2014 Burdwan blasts, in which two Jamaat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members were killed

A BSF report has said at least 3,000 to 4,000 infiltrators are arrested by it every year from the porous border

The SC’s directive came on PILs filed by tribal groups in Assam, seeking protection of their linguistic, social and cultural rights, which they claim were violated due to the increasing number of Bangladeshis in the state

The SC quoted a 1998 report by then Assam governor L-G (retd.) S.K. Sinha to the President on the ‘grave threat posed by the large-scale influx of people from Bangladesh to Assam’, which said “the dangerous consequences both for the people of Assam and more for the nation as a whole need to be empathetically stressed”. 

“No misconceived and mistaken notions of secularism should be allowed to come in the way of doing so,”