: Gauhati High Court ordered detention centres to be moved out of jails – but that’s just geography #IndiaNEWS In a judgment on October 7, the Gauhati High Court pointed out the obvious. People identified

Gauhati High Court ordered detention centres to be moved out of jails – but that’s just geography #IndiaNEWS
In a judgment on October 7, the Gauhati High Court pointed out the obvious. People identified as foreigners and awaiting deportation or repatriation cannot be held in jails. Neither can people waiting to establish their citizenship.In March, the Centre said that there were 3,331 people identified as or suspected to be “foreigners??? lodged in six detention centres across Assam. Several hundred have been released since then as the pandemic swept across the country. These detention centres are part of various prison premises. A designated detention camp, capable of housing 3,000 inmates, is under construction in Lower Assam’s Goalpara.There are numerous accounts of the harrowing conditions in the detention centres carved out of jails – inadequate food and drinking water, no sanitation to speak of, poor hygiene and healthcare, even some instances of inmates being tied to prison beds.The high court rightly pointed out that such individuals must be ensured basic amenities and had the right to be treated with dignity. It tore apart the Assam government’s argument that detaining them in jails was a temporary measure – some of the jails have been used as detention centres for a decade now. It directed the government to move such centres out of jails and demanded to see an...Read more

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