Declared Indian in 2019, Assam woman gets Foreigners’ Tribunal notice again
The Hindu
Police said the case can be disposed of if a copy of the earlier order is submitted in response
A Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) in western Assam’s Bongaigaon has issued a prove-your-citizenship notice to a woman it had declared an Indian citizen more than two years ago.
The Bongaigaon-based FT No. 1 had in March 2019 declared Bharati Sarkar of No. 2 Jamdoha village in the Bongaigaon district “as not being a foreigner of the stream post-1971 or any other stream”. The Assam police’s Border wing, suspecting her to be a Bangladeshi national, had referred her case to the FT in July 2005.
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