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            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam government to bring back a woman from Nagaon’s Juria who was allegedly pushed back to Bangladesh after being suspected of being a foreigner, according to details of a recent court proceeding.</p>

<p>The court also directed the authorities to pay Rs 2 lakh as interim compensation to the woman’s husband, taking a serious view of the circumstances surrounding her deportation.</p>

<p>The woman, identified as Momtaz Begum, is a resident of Juria in Nagaon district. Another woman, Jahanara Khatun, was also allegedly pushed back after being suspected of being a foreign national.</p>

<p>The court’s intervention has raised questions over the procedure followed by the authorities in identifying and deporting individuals suspected of being foreigners.</p>

<p>The matter has also drawn attention to the legal safeguards applicable to Indian citizens who may be wrongly identified as foreign nationals.</p>

<p>The High Court’s direction to bring Momtaz back to India and compensate her husband is being viewed as a significant development in cases involving alleged wrongful pushbacks from Assam.</p>

<p>Further details of the court’s observations and the circumstances surrounding the two women’s alleged pushback are awaited.</p>
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            <div class="text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p class="text-align-justify">The Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam government to bring back a woman from Nagaon’s Juria who was allegedly pushed back to Bangladesh after being suspected of being a foreigner, according to details of a recent court proceeding.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">The court also directed the authorities to pay Rs 2 lakh as interim compensation to the woman’s husband, taking a serious view of the circumstances surrounding her deportation.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">The woman, identified as Momtaz Begum, is a resident of Juria in Nagaon district. Another woman, Jahanara Khatun, was also allegedly pushed back after being suspected of being a foreign national.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">The court’s intervention has raised questions over the procedure followed by the authorities in identifying and deporting individuals suspected of being foreigners.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">The matter has also drawn attention to the legal safeguards applicable to Indian citizens who may be wrongly identified as foreign nationals.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">The High Court’s direction to bring Momtaz back to India and compensate her husband is being viewed as a significant development in cases involving alleged wrongful pushbacks from Assam.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">Further details of the court’s observations and the circumstances surrounding the two women’s alleged pushback are awaited.</p>
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The Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam government to bring back a woman from Nagaon’s Juria who was allegedly pushed back to Bangladesh after being suspected of being a foreigner, according to details of a recent court proceeding.


Gauhati HC orders Assam to bring back Nagaon woman allegedly pushed back as foreigner

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