Reality check of detention centres in India| Master Stroke Full

In January this year, the Union Home Ministry had prepared and circulated a model Detention Centre/Holding Centre/Camp manual. Prepared in pursuance of the Supreme Court's August 20, 2018 order on a petition filed by Collaborative Network for Research and Capacity Building, Guwahati, the manual explains that detention centres are confinement centres where foreign nationals are held for conducting necessary verification and deporting them after issuing travel documents by the respective governments.