{"id":8683,"date":"2019-12-30T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2019-12-30T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:54:19","slug":"calcutta-hc-halts-deportation-of-rohingya-couple-back-to-myanmar-until-their-plea-is-disposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/calcutta-hc-halts-deportation-of-rohingya-couple-back-to-myanmar-until-their-plea-is-disposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcutta HC Halts Deportation Of Rohingya Couple Back To Myanmar Until Their Plea Is Disposed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source &#8211;   swarajyamag.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Calcutta High Court has restrained the Central and West Bengal governments from deporting a Rohingya couple, in &#8220;the spirit of humanity&#8221; till the disposal of a writ petition filed by the duo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench headed by Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya gave the order on a 18 December writ petition in which Abdur Sukur alias Adi Sukur and his wife Anowara Begam pleaded they should not be sent back to Myanmar &#8220;to face persecution&#8221; having already sought refugee status with the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple, arrested in 2017 from 24 Parganas North district&#8217;s Basirhat after they entered India through Bangladesh and were on their way to Delhi for a UNHCR hearing, have served out their sentence but are still lodged in Dum Dum jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court, in its order, asked the state government to &#8220;uphold the spirit of humanity&#8221; by making available the basic amenities to the couple so that they would live with dignity till the petition was finally decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Bhattacharya gave time till 10 January to the State and Central governments to file their affidavit-in-opposition, and fixed 17 January as deadline for the petitioners to furnish their replies. 20 January will be the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/calcutta-hc-halts-deportation-of-rohingya-couple-back-to-myanmar-until-their-plea-is-disposed\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; swarajyamag.com The Calcutta High Court has restrained the Central and West Bengal governments from deporting a Rohingya couple, in &#8220;the spirit of humanity&#8221; till the disposal of a writ petition filed by the duo. A bench headed by Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya gave the order on a 18 December writ petition in which Abdur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2962],"tags":[6616,6999,6127,7056],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcutta-high-court","tag-calcutta-hc-2","tag-rohingya-couple","tag-state-government-2","tag-west-bengal-governments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}