Chief Judicial Magistrate, Imphal East sentences 22 illegal migrants to 2 years term
20 days RI, Rs 10,000 fine imposed
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 21 2012:
The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Imphal East has today sentenced 22 Bangladeshi immigrants to prison for two years in addition to slapping them a fine of Rs 10,000 each.
The CJM's order elucidated that 20 days should be under rigorous imprisonment while the remaining period of the jail term should be simple imprisonment.
In case, the convicts cannot pay the fine of Rs 10,000, their prison term should be extended by six months.
The 22 convicted foreign nationals were pulled up by police from Hatta and surrounding areas on August 30 .
They were produced before Court the next day and were remanded to judicial custody.
The concerned IO also submitted charge-sheet of the particular FIR case on the same day.
After hearing the case today, the Court declared the 22 individuals guilty of entering India without valid documents and stated that they were punishable under Section 14-A of the Foreigners Act 1946 .
The Court also appreciated the OC of Porompat police station and the IO of the particular FIR case for their active and speedy investigation followed by timely submission of charge-sheet which enabled speedy trial of the illegal immigrants.
The recent drive against illegal immigrants was launched after North East people were threatened and targeted through SMSs and hate-mails in different cities of India which resulted in mass exodus following confrontation between indigenous people and immigrants in some parts of Assam.
After Imphal East District Police succeeded in pulling up illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, 19 Myanmarese Nationals were pulled up from Lilong area of Thoubal district.
Further four Bangladeshi immigrants were picked up from Serou.
Around 200 Bangladeshi nationals were intercepted at Jiribam and made to turn back.