Declared a foreigner, 104-year-old man in Assam dies before being able to prove Indian citizenship
Chandradhar Das was also sent to the Silchar Central Jail in March 2018, but released in June after public outrage against his imprisonment. Dec 15, 2020 · 11:13 am Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens, and the National Population Register in Kolkata on February 25. | Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP
A 104-year-old man in Assam, who was declared a foreigner by a tribunal in 2018, died before being able to prove his Indian citizenship, the
Hindustan Times reported on Monday.
Chandradhar Das died at his home in Cachar district’s Amraghat area on Sunday night. He suffered a heart attack, according to
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After fighting for citizenship for 2 years, 104-year-old Assam man dies
After fighting for citizenship for 2 years, 104-year-old Assam man dies
A 104-year-old Assam man died after fighting for citizenship for two years after he was declared a foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal.
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A 104-year-old man of Assam’s Cachar district has died after fighting to prove his Indian citizenship for the past two years.
Chandradhar Das, a resident of the Amraghat area under the Dholai police station in the Cachar district, was declared a foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal two years back.
He passed away on Sunday at his home, after struggling hard to prove his Indian citizenship.
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In a heart-wrenching incident, a 104-year-old man of Assam’s Cachar district has died after fighting to verify his Indian citizenship for the past two years. Chandradhar Das, a resident of the Amraghat area under the Dholai police station in the Cachar district, was declared a foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal two years back.
He passed away on Sunday at his home, after struggling hard to prove his Indian citizenship. Until his last breath, the old man was hopeful that his plight will be ended through the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. The centenarian wanted to die as an Indian citizen.
Das was declared a foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Silchar in January 2018 and he was sent to Silchar detention camp. “Das was unhealthy and he had various old-age problems, could barely walk while he was in jail. When his health condition started deteriorating, we had filed a bail petition before the court and the court granted his bail petition on humanitarian grounds,” Das
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GUWAHATI: A centenarian in Assam died, virtually stateless.
Declared a “foreigner” by a Foreigners’ Tribunal, Chandradhar Das (104) wished to die as an “Indian”. It was not fulfilled.
According to his family sources, he had been unwell for the past few months and was not eating food properly.
In January 2018, Das was declared a foreigner ex-parte after he had failed to appear before the tribunal and sent to the detention centre for illegal immigrants at the Central Jail, Silchar in southern Assam’s Cachar district. Three months later, however, he had walked to freedom after being granted bail.
“He was frail and bed-ridden over the past few months. He had one last wish he wanted to die as an Indian,” Das’s daughter Niyati said.
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