Agartala, July 10 -- The Tripura High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking urgent measures to curb the rising influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar, advising the petitioners to allow time for the state government to respond.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice Biswajit Palit heard the PIL filed by Bijay Debbarma of the Joint Action Committee and John Debbarma, a student activist representing the Twipra Students Federation (TSF).

Senior advocate Manish Goswami, appearing for the petitioners, argued that the state had yet to implement the four-stage process outlined by the Ministry of Home Affairs-detection, adjudication, detention, and deportation-despit...