Gandhinagar, May 29 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the Centre's high-level committee on "artificial" demographic changes due to illegal immigration and other unnatural causes will also assess whether a law is required to tackle the issue.

If illegal migrants left on their own, the BJP government in West Bengal will refrain from filing legal cases against them and facilitate their departure, he said here.

Speaking at a gathering after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone for development projects worth Rs 340 crore, Shah said the committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, would submit its report within a year.

A notification issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs ...