During the hearing of special provision to deal with immigrants of covered by Assam Accord, Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, the Centre has tried to maintain that Assam was never a part of Myanmar which was earlier stated by a Senior Advocate of Supreme Court.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said the senior counsel made an incorrect reference to Assam being part of Myanmar; the false statement was issued by senior advocate Kapil Sibal.
Mehta said, “I don’t think that may have purpose for deciding the validity of Section 6A. But some history was referred to by my learned senior friend (senior advocate Kapil Sibal). It seems he had read a wrong book of history. Assam was never a part of Myanmar.”
