On Sunday, Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that there is no Detention Center in India, he called it a rumor.

Modi said "Only the rumors of the Detention Center raised by Congress and Urban Naxalites are false, ill-intentioned, full of evil intentions to destroy the country - it is a lie, a lie, a lie."

He said, "Muslims of the soil of India, whose ancestors are the children of mother Bharati. Brothers and sisters, both citizenship law and NRC have nothing to do with them. The Muslims of the country are not being sent to the Detention Center, There is no detention center in India. Brothers and sisters, this is a white lie, this is a bad-intentioned game, it is a nefarious game. I am surprised that to what extent can they go to lie.''

Is India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling the truth about Detention Center? Let us examine Modi's claim.

Contrary to Modi's claim, a 2018 report by BBC correspondent Nitin Srivastava tells the story of people coming out of the detention center.

According to a report by BBC correspondent Nitin Srivastava, "For those who are living here or for those who have lived here, this Detention Camp is a nightmare that has been consumed day and night."

Similarly, BBC correspondent Priyanka Dubey has also reported about detention centers in Assam.

According to a report by BBC correspondent Priyanka Dubey, "The future of Assam's children lost in the arduous legal process of deciding citizenship seems to be shrouded in darkness. Sometimes the detention of a parent is forced to live in a tight prison environment. Without his shadow, no one is going to take care of these children alone, suffering the harsh world outside.''

If we look at the questions and answers made in the Parliament of India this year, it is known that the Detention Center has been discussed in the Parliament and the Central Government has admitted that they have written to the State Governments.

In response to a question asked in the Rajya Sabha on 10 July 2019, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai had said that the illegal people who came into the country are not confirmed until their citizenship and they are not expelled from the country, till then states will have to keep them in Detention Center. No record has yet been kept of the exact number of such detention centers.

He had said that on 9 January 2019, the Central Government has given a 'Model Detention Center or Holding Center Manual' to all state governments and Union Territories to set up detention centers in their state.

According to a report published in The Hindu in August this year, on July 2, 2019, BJP leader Nityanand Rai had said in the Lok Sabha that the state governments had been asked to set up detention centers in their states in the years 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2018.

In response to a question asked in the Lok Sabha on 2 July 2019, Minister of State for Home Affairs, G. Krishna Reddy said that the Ministry of Home Affairs has created a Model Detention Center (Holding Center Manual) which was given to all the state governments and union territories on 9 January 2019.

In reply, he said that according to this manual, necessary facilities are provided in the Detention Center.

In response to a question asked in the Lok Sabha on 16 July 2019, Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Krishna Reddy said that Detention Centers have been set up in Assam.

He had said that these centers have been created under Section 3 (2) (e) of the Foreigners Act 1946 to keep those people whose citizenship has not been confirmed.

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