Gauhati High Court echoes Assamese ethnic nationalist discourse in order on foreigners tribunal
Instead of simplifying the bureaucratic maze of citizenship, it reaffirmed the rhetoric of distrust around the National Register of Citizens.
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Instead of simplifying the bureaucratic maze of citizenship, it reaffirmed the rhetoric of distrust around the National Register of Citizens.
The Gauhati High Court directed the Assam government to review cases where the Foreigners' Tribunals (FTs) have declared applicants as citizens or as foreigners without proper analysis of the...
The order comes in the backdrop of a plea where petitioner, Forhad Ali, a resident of Assam’s Bongaigaon, was declared foreigner by a tribunal after observing that his father's name was written different in various documents.
Forhad Ali, a resident of Assam's Bongaigaon, was declared foreigner by a tribunal after noting that his father's name was written Habi Rahman and Habibur Rahman in different documents.The order was passed against Ali by a Foreigners' Tribunal ...
‘It has to be construed that the tribunals had not discharged the jurisdiction vested upon it under the law,’ the Gauhati High Court observed.