Provide immediate medical help to detained Rohingya refugee: Delhi High Court to FRRO

The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the Central government and the Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO) to provide immediate medical help to a Rohingya refugee Senora Begum, lodged in one of the detention centres in the national capital..Justice Prathiba M Singh said that her medical examination should be held by Friday and cautioned the authorities that there should not be any infraction in providing Begum and other detainees with proper meals..The Court passed the order after 23-year-old Begum moved the Court seeking her release from the detention centre.Advocate Warisha Farasat appeared for the petitioner and informed the Court that Begum is, at present, stateless and the Myanmar government has refused to grant her any recognition.Farasat argued that Begum fled Myanmar and arrived in India seeking asylum. However, she and her husband were detained by the authorities and have been kept in a detention centre since June last year. The petitioner is very sick and in frail condition. The condition of the detention centre is absolutely inhumane, Farasat said.“They do not have the power to detain us and there is absolutely no provision for indefinite detention. The kind of conditions that are there in the detention centre are completely inhumane… During preparation of this petition, we also found that the detainees are being served food only twice a day,” Farasat stated..Meanwhile, the counsel appearing for the government said that they have tried to contact the Myanmarese authorities but they are not responding. It was further stated that the illegal immigrants are being kept at the detention centre so that they can be reached as and when required.He also said that meals are being provided to the detainees as per the norms prescribed. .After considering the case, the Court issued notice to the Central government directed the authorities to provide medical treatment to Begum.Justice Singh said that she will hear the matter next in July. .Apart from Warisha Farasat, the petitioner was represented through advocates Satyajit Sarna and Mreganka Kukreja.