By Aliza Noor
For 50-year-old Doyjan Bibi, resident of a small village called Madhusaulmari Pt.II in Assam’s Dhubri, the past few years have been an ordeal. On 24 May 2025, she was picked up and deported to Bangladesh, despite a case pending in the court on this matter.
While the family got confirmation of her deportation on 1 June, the Foreigner’s Tribunal (FT) in Guwahati High Court verbally confirmed on 16 June that Doyjan is now lodged in Kokrajhar Holding Centre. The Quint has a copy of the latest court order.
Doyjan’s story is not an ordinary one, nor is it the only such story coming out of Assam. Her story is representative of a larger pattern in Assam of late, where many people living there since decades, if not generations, being “pushed into” Bangladesh.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently said that 330 “illegal immigrants” were “pushed back” in the last few months.
Moreover, he has decided to bring into action a 1950 law to “push back” “illegal immigrants” into Bangladesh. This includes any persons whom the district commissioners might find to be “foreigners” prima facie, bypassing the state’s FTs.
Doyjan was among those who were abruptly deported last month. But how did she find herself in the middle of this?
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