SC sets aside foreigner declarations by Assam tribunals: 'Citizenship must be determined through fair process'
The Supreme Court pronounced judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the denial of citizenship by the Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam. The court said citizenship
The Supreme Court pronounced judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the denial of citizenship by the Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam. The court said citizenship and foreigner status must be determined through a "fair, lawful and reasonable" process, while setting aside judgments of the Gauhati High Court that had upheld declarations of 27 appellants as foreigners. The petitioners argued that they were declared foreigners simply due to hyper-technical errors such as minor spelling mismatches of names in old voter lists.
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