Earlier this month, an IAF transport aircraft had ferried around 55 tonnes of relief material for the Rohingya refugees in B'desh
The ban was justified for security reasons, said junior telecoms minister Tarana Halim
The PIL challenging the deportation of Rohingyas for hearing on October 3
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had, on Monday, described the situation of Myanmar's Rohingya minority as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and criticised both Yangon and New Delhi
More than 300,000 Rohingya have poured into Bangladesh since the latest flare-up in violence on August 25
Rohingyas are an ethnic group who are concentrated in Rakhine state, in Buddhist-majority Myanmar
India has been hosting refugees without law since 1971, when people came from war-torn Bangladesh
The decision to forcibly deport Rohingya refugees is damaging to the idea of India