India's Supreme Court has heard arguments from the government and the two Rohingya, who have petitioned against the government's plan to deport the persecuted refugees.
Ravi Nair of the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre told Al Jazeera that the Modi government "suffers from Islamophobia and it sees in every Muslim a potential terrorist".
Out of the estimated 40,000 Rohingya refugees, more than 16,000 are registered with the United Nations refugee agency, but the government has said that even those registered with UNHCR would not be spared from deportation.
"It is an approach that welcomes Hindu refugees from India's neighbouring countries, but shuts the door on Rohingya, who are predominantly Muslim, in the name of national security," he wrote in an Al Jazeera article.
"India has thousands of years old tradition of giving shelter to those seeking refuge, which it should not jettison," Tharoor, the former UN undersecretary-general, was quoted as saying by the UNI news agency.
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