New Delhi: A fresh plea was on Monday filed in the Supreme Court favouring the Centre's stand to identify and deport to Myanmar around 40,000 illegal Rohingya Muslims staying in the country.
The plea may be heard by a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra which is already considering various petitions, including the lead PIL filed by two Rohingya Muslim refugees, Mohammad Salimullah and Mohammad Shaqir, challenging their deportation.
The apex court has already fixed the earlier pleas for detailed hearing from November 21.
The latest plea has been filed by Binay Kumar Singh, a national executive member of BJP's Kisan Morcha, T Raja Singh, a BJP MLA from Goshamahal in Telangana and Sunil Kumar, who claims to be an activist. They have sought impleadment as parties in the ongoing matter and alleged that the illegal Rohingya immigrants are not refugees but should rather be seen as "aggressors/ invaders".