India, June 2 -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition challenging alleged deportations to Bangladesh of people other than 63 individuals identified as foreigners in Assam and directed the petitioner to approach the high court.

"You take your recourse to approach the Gauhati high court. 63 persons are being deported. You go to the high court," said a bench of justices Sanjay Karol and SC Sharma, as it heard a student group's petition.

The petition annexed press clippings showing people other than the 63 were being picked up and deported to Bangladesh.

Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who represented the petitioner All BTC Minority Students Union (ABMSU), said the 63 were declared foreigners after the external affairs...