Does 1950 pact give Nepal citizens right to settle in India?: HC

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• Uttarakhand high court said govt had not placed on record what privileges Indian nationals received in Nepal, a point it called necessary to decide whether Nepali citizens could settle in India without formal permission NAINITAL: Uttarakhand high court has questioned whether the India-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1950, gives Nepalese citizens an unrestricted right to settle and buy property in India, and asked govt to clarify whether Indian nationals receive the same privileges in Nepal in practice.A division bench of Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Subhash Upadhyay raised the issue while hearing a PIL filed by Nainital resident Pawan Jatav against the Union of India and others.
• The petitioner alleged that around 25 families from Nepal had occupied govt and nazool land in Nainital city and near Bajun in Khurpatal gram sabha over the past several years without obtaining Indian citizenship.The petition also alleged that they had...