New Delhi: The Karnataka government has informed the Supreme Court that it has no immediate plan to deport 72 Rohingya people living in Bengaluru while opposing a plea to identify and deport them.It submitted before the apex court that the plea filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay is not maintainable, devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed.“It is submitted that the Bengaluru City Police have not housed the Rohingya in any camp or detention centre within its jurisdiction. However, 72 Rohingya identified in Bengaluru City are working in various fields and Bengaluru City Police have not taken any coercive action against them as of now and there is no immediate plan of deporting them,” the state government’s affidavit said.The affidavit was filed in response to Upadhyay’s plea seeking directions to the Centre and state governments to identify, detain and deport all illegal immigrants and infiltrators, including Bangladeshis and the Rohingya, within one year.Also Read: Refoulement, Rohingya and a Refugee Policy for India“The large-scale illegal migrants, particularly from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have not only threatened the demographic structure of bordering districts but seriously impaired security and national integration,” the plea had said.Upadhyay’s plea alleged there was an organised influx of illegal migrants from Myanmar through agents and touts via West Bengal, Tripura, and Guwahati.“This situation is seriously harming the national security of the country,” the plea had said.LiveLaw reported that, the writ petition had also directed the central and state government to declare fabricating of Aadhaar card and PAN Card as a nonbailable and a non compoundable offence.According to Hindustan Times, the Basavaraj Bommai government has also pressed for dismissal of the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Upadhyay, who is also associated with BJP and has been a former spokesperson for the party in Delhi.However, there is a stark contrast on the position taken by the BJP-led Karnataka Government and the Central government on this issue. In March, in a separate batch of cases, some of the Rohingya refugees sought protection from deportation and also their release from detention centres.The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), however, declared that India cannot become “the international capital of illegal immigrants” while terming the Rohingya “absolutely illegal immigrants” who posed “serious threats to the national security”.In April this year, the Supreme Court had refused to stop the deportation of at least 150 Rohingya refugees detained in a Jammu prison to Myanmar in the wake of Centre’s submissions that the Rohingya cannot press for a fundamental right not to be deported and rather settle in India since right to residence is reserved only to the citizens of the country.(With inputs from PTI)