Assam Finance Minister (FM) Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on October 23 that once the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is passed, no person of a non-Muslim faith will be sent to detention camps for illegal foreigners, reports Indian Express. He stated that ““After the CAB is passed, Assam detention camps will be shut for Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians. Regarding the other population, it is for the court to take a call. Detention camps are there because of a court order, not because the state government wants them.”Assam has six detention centres currently but they are housed in district jails. Over a 1000 people are currently lodged in these camps. A seventh centre, exclusively for detaining “illegal foreigners”, is under construction in Goalpara District.