This newspaper had on the front page on Sunday reported that as many as eight Bangladeshi infiltrators were pushed back on Saturday to their country from Assam through the Sutarkandi international border in the Karimganj district. These Bangladeshis were earlier arrested from different parts of Assam. Five of them were arrested in the Karimganj district, one in the Cachar district and two in the Kamrup district. These arrests have been made at a time when certain political parties, a section of politicians and a section of intellectuals of the state continue to assert that there has been no Bangladeshi infiltration into Assam and that it is false propaganda of the All Assam Students' Union and some political parties. One does not have to depend on any kind of propaganda or allegation to ascertain that a large number of people from erstwhile East Pakistan and present-day Bangladesh have been illegally entering Assam since Independence. Instead, one just needs to read a few official documents of the Government of Assam, and a couple of very important judgments of the Supreme Court of India and the Gauhati High Court to understand the gravity of the situation caused by large-scale infiltration from Bangladesh. While the Assam Accord itself is a major document putting the gravity of the influx problem on the official record, the Supreme Court judgment of July 12, 2005, striking down the controversial IM(DT) Act is a fantastic document which describes and analyses in detail the problem of influx and the dangers posed by infiltration to the security and integrity of India.