https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174075 A special migrant-detention and deportation regime was held unconstitutional because its procedure made detection and expulsion of illegal migrants unduly onerous, shifted no meaningful burden onto the claimed citizen, and in practice frustrated the Union's constitutional duty to protect the State from external aggression and internal disturbance. The Court also found that applying the regime only to Assam failed Article 14, because the geographical classification lacked a rational nexus with the object of effective detection and removal of illegal migrants and instead conferred an undue advantage on such migrants. The impugned Act and Rules were invalidated, and the general framework under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and connected laws was restored. en-us Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:33:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174075 A special migrant-detention and deportation regime was held unconstitutional because its procedure made detection and expulsion of illegal migrants unduly onerous, shifted no meaningful burden onto the claimed citizen, and in practice frustrated the Union's constitutional duty to protect the State from external aggression and internal disturbance. The Court also found that applying the regime only to Assam failed Article 14, because the geographical classification lacked a rational nexus with the object of effective detection and removal of illegal migrants and instead conferred an undue advantage on such migrants. The impugned Act and Rules were invalidated, and the general framework under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and connected laws was restored. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174075