Guwahati: Detention Center, which is a ‘foreigner’ housing, as declared by a special court, has been renamed by the state government as a transit camp.
The country currently has six detention centers in many central prisons with 177 inmates.
The Mandiri Detention Center, with a capacity to accommodate 3,000 foreigners, is being built in the Dalata in the destination district, about 150 km from here.
Notice, signed by Niraj Versma, the main secretary of Assam, the Department of Houses and Politics, on August 17, stated that “the nomenclature of the detention center was changed to ‘Transit Camp’ for the purpose of detention” in partial modification notifications on June 17, 2009.
When contacted, Verma Telling TOI that, “The government will shift prisoners to the center of Mata so ready.
It will be like a transit camp where the prisoners will wait for the results.
Somehow they will be deported to the country of origin or according to the Supreme Court’s order, if they complete two years of detention they will Released.
“Senior department senior official, who did not want to be named, told TI that his name was changed so that the negative connotation was ‘neutralized to a certain extent’.
“Prisoners in detention centers are not such criminals.
They deserve human condition.
The phrase detention center appears like a negative connotation.
Chairman of the Minister of Assam, Himanta Buswa Sarma, basically wants to humanize everything,” said the senior official.
Detention Camp in Assam was placed in a district prison but detainees were stored separately from other inmates.
The first detention center was founded in 2009 during the Congress Government, driven by a high court order in cases that deal with ‘illegal foreigners’.
Government data revealed 29 foreigners who were declared dead during their detention since 2009, while many guarantees for years.
After the Supreme Court on May 10, 2019, the order, which stated that foreigners were declared can be released after three years of detention submitted in certain conditions, 273 people were released.
In April 2020, another order reduced the detention period to two years and because 481 were released.
In October 2020, the Jahati High Court, hearing the request for how the authority was asked to operate detention centers, request the Department of Houses and Politics of the state government to submit reports that detail the steps that have been taken to the detention centers outside.
During the latest hearing in this application on August 11, Advocate General, D.
Saikia, was submitted before the court that quick steps were being taken to complete the construction work of the detention center in Mata in a period of one month.
The court gave a 45-day time to the state to complete the construction of the detention center proposed and to shift detenues to the center.
The High Court said the state government must be ‘ensuring that places where they are stored must have basic electrical, water and cleanliness facilities and that there is the right security in these places’.