Morigaon Deputy Commissioner Seeks Service Report of Declared Foreigner

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Aug 17: The Deputy Commissioner of Morigaon has directed the District Elementary Education Officer (DEEO) to furnish the detailed service report of arrested declared foreigner Khairul Islam who has served as a teacher in an LP School in Morigaon district.

Talking to The Sentinel, Morigaon DC Hemen Das said: “Instructions have been given to the DEEO to submit the service report of Khairul Islam.” Meanwhile sources informed that Khairul Islam has been serving in the Khandapukhuri LP School since 1997. The district administration also seeks to know whether the authorities concerned took into account the Foreigners Tribunal’s report on Islam’s citizenship status during his service tenure.

It may be mentioned that Islam was involved in NRC updating work in Mikirgaon Sewa Kendra in Morigaon. Police on Wednesday night arrested Khairul from Moirabari village and subsequently sent him to the Detention Camp in Tezpur on Thursday.

Meanwhile, police is on the lookout for Khairul’s family members. According to the Morigaon SP Swapnanil Deka, the four-member family of Islam consists of his mother and two siblings including two brothers and a sister. Both the Foreigners Tribunal and the Gauhati High Court have declared all of them as foreigners.

Proceedings against Islam have been continuing in the Foreigners Tribunal, Morigaon, since 2003. However, the fact remains that though Islam was declared a Bangladeshi national by the Morigaon Foreigners Tribunal (FT) in 2015 and by the Gauhati High Court on June 13, 2018, he was involved in the NRC updating process carried out in Mikirgaon NSK under Mikirbheta Revenue Circle in Morigaon district. Of course, the Morigaon district administration relieved Islam from NRC work after it came to know from media reports that Khairul had been declared a foreigner by Morigaon FT.