While considering the PIL seeking direction to the CBI to register an FIR and carry out investigation with respect to illegal border trade and smuggling of areca nuts into Mizoram and other adjoining States of India the Aizawl division bench of Gauhati High Court issued notice to the respondents.
India is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol and does not have a national framework regarding refugees. But continues to grant asylum to a large number of refugees from neighbouring States and respects UNHCR’s mandate for other nationals, mainly from Afghanistan and Myanmar.
The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian were hearing a PIL challenging the detention of the Rohingya refugees
Aung San Suu Kyi’s huge win in the November polls in Myanmar probably triggered the coup because the armed forces feared losing their influence over the election of the president and second vice-president.