Dulubi Bibi News Today

There was a mismatch in her, her father’s and her grandfather’s names in different electoral rolls.

A 50-year-old Assam woman, who was declared an illegal migrant from Bangladesh due to her mismatch names in voters' lists, has now regained her Indian citizenship after a six-year long legal battle.

India News: A woman from Assam's Cachar district, who spent two years in a detention camp after being declared a foreigner due to a mismatch in the names of her f

India News: A woman from Assam's Cachar district, who spent two years in a detention camp after being declared a foreigner due to a mismatch in the names of her f

Silchar: A woman from Khaspur in Cachar’s Udharbond block, who spent two years in a detention camp after being declared a foreigner due to a mismatch .

Dulubi Bibi, a 50-year-old woman from Assam, successfully challenged her illegal migrant status and has been declared an Indian citizen.

A name mismatch in multiple voters’ list had led to the declaration of a woman in Assam as an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh in 2017, only to be...

A name mismatch in multiple voters' list had led to the declaration of a woman in Assam as an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh in 2017, only to be acknowledged as an Indian citizen based on circumstantial evidence six years later, officials said.

It was in 2017 that Bibi was declared a “foreigner” by a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam because of inconsistencies in her name in the voter lists, and sent to a detention camp where she spent two years.

Bibi is a resident of Cachar’s Udharbond area and she was declared foreigner by the member of Foreigners Tribunal-3 of Silchar on March 20, 2017