Gauhati HC grants bail to war veteran Mohammad Sanaullah, who was detained as 'foreigner'
Guwahati, Jun 7: Kargil war veteran Mohammed Sanaullah, who was sent to a detention camp in Assam after a tribunal declared him a 'foreigner', was granted bail by the Gauhati High Court on Friday.
A division bench of justices Manojit Bhuyan and Prasanta Kumar Deka heard a writ petition along with an interlocutory application and granted bail to Sanaullah on two local sureties of Rs 20,000 each.
The bench ruled that Sanaullah cannot leave Kamrup district, of which he is a resident, without the permission of its superintendent of police.
It also issued notices on the respondents, including the Union of India, the Assam government and the Foreigners' Tribunal, Boko.
Sanaullah is likely to be released from the detention centre on Saturday.
His family members had filed a writ petition against the tribunal's May 23 order along with the interlocutory application.
While Supreme Court advocate Indira Jaisingh, along with Gauhati High Court lawyers Syed Burhanur Rehman, Aman Wadud and Samim Ahmed Barbhuiyan, appeared on behalf of the petitioner, advocate U K Nair represented the respondents.
The Foreigners' Tribunal at Boko had last month declared 52-year-old Sanaullah a 'foreigner', following which he was sent to the detention centre at Goalpara.
He is among the 40 lakh people whose names were not included in the complete draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), published last year.
Sanaullah, who retired from the Army in 2017, was awarded the President's Medal in 2014.
A resident of Kolohikash village in Boko area of Kamrup district, he was serving as a sub-inspector in the Assam Border Police before being declared a foreigner and dismissed from service.
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Karnataka govt to strictly implement the paid menstrual leave policy, after HC directive
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Labour Minister Santosh Lad has said that the government will strictly implement the paid menstrual leave policy across all sectors at the earliest, following the High Court directive.
The High Court of Karnataka had recently directed the state government to "strictly and faithfully" implement the menstrual leave policy, pending formal enactment of the proposed legislation.
"I welcome the directive issued by the Karnataka High Court in support of our state government's ambitious menstrual leave policy," Lad said.
The state government has taken firm steps to implement the menstrual leave policy comprehensively, and as a model to the country, he said in a post on 'X' on Thursday.
"In line with the court's opinion that menstrual leave is a matter of women's dignity, justice, and humane recognition of their lived realities, we will strictly implement the paid menstrual leave policy--equivalent to one day per month, or 12 days per year--across all sectors at the earliest," he added.
The court had said that in the interregnum, it shall be incumbent upon the state to ensure effective operationalisation of the policy through the issuance of suitable guidelines, circulars, and administrative instructions, as may be necessary to secure its uniform, consistent, and rigorous implementation across all sectors.
The court issued the directive while hearing on a petition filed by 41-year-old Chandravva Hanumant Gokavi, who works in a hotel in Mudalgi of Gokak taluk in Belagavi district, before the Dharwad bench, seeking implementation of the November 20, 2025, order of the government providing one-day menstrual leave for all working women.
