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By AT News |

Union home ministry is believed to have been caught in an utter confusion when the Karimganj district authorities were preparing to deport 17 Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants.

Highly placed sources told Asam Times that the district authorities were well prepared to deport these 17 immigrants who were lodged in jail for the last one and half year.

They were to be deported from Steamerghat near Karimganj town and the Border Guards Bangladesh jawans were ready to accept them at Zakiganj on Monday.

But the Union home ministry failed to issued the required clearance in time and it has forced the authorities to suspend the process.

Again they were taken back to the Cachar Central Jail until further order.

Those include Bhagabati Goala, Rahul Das, Mou Das apart from other 13 Muslim immigrants. The confusion assumes significance amid the UPA Government’s move to give refugee status to the Hindu immigrants from the neighbouring countries amending the Citizenship Act, 1955.

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