<p>Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday reserved its order in a public interest litigation on the presence of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in the state.</p>.<p>A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Arun Kumar Rai took up the plea filed by a person named Danish Daniel.</p>.<p>The petitioner claimed that illegal immigrants from the neighbouring country were seeking refuge in the Santhal Parganas districts of Jharkhand.</p>.ED files money laundering case to probe Bangladeshi infiltration into Jharkhand.<p>The bench, after hearing the arguments of the Union government, the state government as well as the petitioner, reserved its order in the matter.</p>.<p>Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing before the court via the virtual mode, mentioned about a proposed high-level fact-finding committee being formed with the Union home secretary and chief secretary of the state as its key members.</p>.<p>The panel would discuss the matter and provide its report, Mehta said.</p>.<p>Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, representing the state government virtually, alleged that the PIL has purposely been timed to gain political mileage ahead of the assembly elections.</p>.<p>Assembly polls in Jharkhand are due later this year.</p>.<p>Earlier, the central government had filed an affidavit, confirming the presence of illegal immigrants in Jharkhand’s Pakur and Sahibganj.</p>.<p>The high court had on September 18 said the deputy commissioners of Santhal Parganas districts provided "wrong" information that there were no illegal immigrants in the region.</p>.<p>In his petition, Daniel said that Bangladeshi refugees were entering Jharkhand through the porous borders in the Santhal Parganas.</p>.<p>The refugees were setting up madrasas and settlements in the region and disturbing the existence of the local tribal populace, the petition claimed.</p>
<p>Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday reserved its order in a public interest litigation on the presence of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in the state.</p>.<p>A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Arun Kumar Rai took up the plea filed by a person named Danish Daniel.</p>.<p>The petitioner claimed that illegal immigrants from the neighbouring country were seeking refuge in the Santhal Parganas districts of Jharkhand.</p>.ED files money laundering case to probe Bangladeshi infiltration into Jharkhand.<p>The bench, after hearing the arguments of the Union government, the state government as well as the petitioner, reserved its order in the matter.</p>.<p>Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing before the court via the virtual mode, mentioned about a proposed high-level fact-finding committee being formed with the Union home secretary and chief secretary of the state as its key members.</p>.<p>The panel would discuss the matter and provide its report, Mehta said.</p>.<p>Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, representing the state government virtually, alleged that the PIL has purposely been timed to gain political mileage ahead of the assembly elections.</p>.<p>Assembly polls in Jharkhand are due later this year.</p>.<p>Earlier, the central government had filed an affidavit, confirming the presence of illegal immigrants in Jharkhand’s Pakur and Sahibganj.</p>.<p>The high court had on September 18 said the deputy commissioners of Santhal Parganas districts provided "wrong" information that there were no illegal immigrants in the region.</p>.<p>In his petition, Daniel said that Bangladeshi refugees were entering Jharkhand through the porous borders in the Santhal Parganas.</p>.<p>The refugees were setting up madrasas and settlements in the region and disturbing the existence of the local tribal populace, the petition claimed.</p>