India, July 27 -- Sixty-year-old Noor Jahan from Assam's Morigaon spent seven years in a foreigners' detention centre after a Foreigners Tribunal (FT) declared her an illegal foreigner in an ex-parte (one-sided) order in 2011. Her husband, Abdul Jebbar, 75, was declared a foreigner by the same quasi-judicial tribunal in 2012. Arrested in 2013, the elderly couple walked out only in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown after the Supreme Court (SC) ordered the release of long-term detainees on conditional bail. The family is modest. Noor Jahan is a housewife, and Abdul Jebbar served as a cleric at a mosque in Tezpur until his arrest. But their challenge to their detention -- first in front of the Gauhati high court in 2013 which was dismissed fou...