Tag: Citizenship

The CJP assists another Assam resident who had received, for the third time, an FT notice for being a suspected foreigner and wins! The constitutional battle against arbitrary legal malpractice for the marginalised continues

A resident of Assam, "suspected of being a foreigner" by a Foreigners' Tribunal (FT) in Bongaigoan District, Assam, has finally been declared an Indian Citizen. Sukur Ali's case is yet another watershed moment for team CJP at the FT level.

For years the two widows, one Hindu and the other Muslim had battled false accusations of being Bangladeshis

Asiya Bibi of Goalpara had been hounded with three separate FT cases!

FT declares woman Indian citizen by birth after CJP helps her defend her citizenship

After eight months of persistence, CJP’s legal interventions ensured that a nonagenarianRajbongshi woman was declared Indian by an Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal

The court set aside the Tribunal order declaring him foreigner and asked him to seek citizenship by registration

State claims 1,000 bhigas of land set aside for rehabilitation, but it is not for “encroachers”

CJP had helped secure his release from an Assam detention centre, after the migrant labourer was declared “foreigner” by an Assam FT

The court has taken this view in the past while dealing with ex parte orders, and has held that such decisions should be made on merit and evidence adduced by the individual (proceedee)