Aizawl, Oct 28 - Police in Mizoram have been asked to deport non-domicile Indian citizens staying in the state without valid inner line permits, state Home Minister R. Lalzirliana said here Wednesday.

"Indian citizens, who are not domicile to Mizoram, cannot live in the mountainous border state without valid Inner Line Permit (ILP)," Lalzirliana told the state assembly while replying to a query from B. Lalthlengliana of the opposition Mizo National Front (MNF).

Indian citizens, who are not residents of these areas, need an ILP to enter three northeastern states -- Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. The ILP had been lifted from Manipur in November 1950.

"To check influx and unauthorised movement of people from other Indian states to these northeastern states, the ILP system had been introduced long before India's independence," a government official said.

Lalzirliana said that 7,812 people from outside Mizoram are at present staying in the state with valid inner line permits while the inner line permits of 6,673 people have expired during the current year.

"Police continued their search to detect people without valid inner line permits and people found without valid permits were arrested and deported to their respective states," the minister added. (IANs)