-The Hindu For Assam residents, the process became the punishment while proving citizenship before courts and tribunals The Gauhati High Court declared Sahijuddin a foreigner on November 13, 2015. He had appealed to the High Court against an ex-parte order of the Foreigners Tribunal in Kokrajhar declaring him a foreigner. Mr. Sahijuddin was too poor to afford the services of a lawyer and was not represented before the Tribunal. The High Court...
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PAN Card, land, bank documents don't prove citizenship: Gauhati HC -Prasanta Mazumdar
-The New Indian Express NRC state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma did not answer queries made through WhatsApp GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has dismissed the writ petition of a woman, declared a “foreigner” by a foreigners’ tribunal, as she failed to establish her linkage with her father. While passing its order, a division bench of Justices Manojit Bhuyan and Parthivjyoti Saikia quoted from the judgement of a 2016 case between Md. Babul Islam...
More »Voter ID, voter list, land documents not proof of citizenship: Gauhati HC -Sadiq Naqvi
-Outlook India The High Court has dismissed citizenship claims of a woman who submitted 15 documents. The Gauhati High Court recently dismissed citizenship claims of two petitioners-- one of whom produced as many as 15 documents while another submitted his electoral photo identity card. In an order dated February 12, a bench of Justices Manojit Bhuyan and Parthivjyoti Saikia dismissed a writ petition filed by one Jabeda Begum. She was declared a...
More »Amnesty says Foreigners' Tribunals created havoc in Assam for last 15 years
-The Hindu Amnesty’s India head Aakar Patel alleges that FTs were often dismissive, used derogatory language, controlled their own procedures and applied them in arbitrary ways. Guwahati: Amnesty International India said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court and the Gauhati High Court had enabled the Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) to create a statelessness crisis in Assam. The global rights body made this observation in a briefing, ‘Designed to Exclude’, as it called for a...
More »Courts of injustice -Prashant Bhushan and Cheryl D'souza
-The Indian Express The fate of close to two million people excluded from the NRC in Assam rests with the Foreigners Tribunals. The constitutionality and conduct of these quasi-judicial bodies are questionable Over 1.9 million people have been excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. The herculean executive exercise, mandated and closely monitored by the Supreme Court, has incurred a staggering expenditure of over Rs 1,200 crore...
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