According to Sikdar, a senior advocate, “That day, a message was sent to the members, that if you want to keep the job, you must declare more people as foreigners.”

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How Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals, aided by the high court, function like kangaroo courts and persecute its minorities

Both the executive and judiciary seem to encourage the tribunal members' tendency to declare foreigners—sometimes even when there is evidence to the contrary.