About

• A Foreigners Tribunal is a quasi-judicial body established under the Foreigners (Tribunal) Order, 1964, which aims to determine if a person staying illegally in India is a foreigner or otherwise. 
• In 2019, the 1964 order was amended to provide the District Magistrates in all States and Union Territories the power to constitute tribunals, something that only the Centre was authorised to implement earlier. 
• At present, Assam has more than 100 functional Foreigners Tribunals with an additional 1000 sanctioned by the Ministry of Home Affairs in mid-2019.