Claim That India Is Following Legal Procedures Contradicted by Verified Reports of Wrongful Pushbacks
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Claim That India Is Following Legal Procedures Contradicted by Verified Reports of Wrongful Pushbacks

Nishat Tasnim
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What was claimed

India is handling alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators through proper legal channels and should continue pushing them back more decisively.


Our findings

Reports and official statements contradict the claim of using proper legal channels to return alleged Bangladeshis. The BBC documented allegations of gunpoint pushbacks, while Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma himself acknowledged that pushback operations occur secretly at night.


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