NEW DELHI: Highlighting the adverse impact of largescale illegal migration on the social and cultural fabric in addition to the burden it puts on existing national resources, the Supreme Court on Thursday sought the Centre‘s response on steps taken by it to safeguard the northeastern borders and stem the influx from Bangladesh.
A five-judge Constitution bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices Surya Kant, M M Sundresh, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that illegal migration is a “crucial problem” before saying, “We want to know what the Union Government is doing.”
The court said it would also deal with this issue while examining the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which accords legality to migrants who entered the country till March 25, 1971.Defending the Section’s validity, solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and Assam, admitted largescale migration after ’71 wasn’t only changing the state’s demography but also creating problems.
A five-judge Constitution bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices Surya Kant, M M Sundresh, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that illegal migration is a “crucial problem” before saying, “We want to know what the Union Government is doing.”
The court said it would also deal with this issue while examining the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which accords legality to migrants who entered the country till March 25, 1971.Defending the Section’s validity, solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and Assam, admitted largescale migration after ’71 wasn’t only changing the state’s demography but also creating problems.