Man declared foreigner in Assam told to apply for citizenship under CAA
The Hindu
Bablu Paul was 2 years old when he came to India from erstwhile East Pakistan in 1964
The Gauhati High Court has asked a man declared a foreigner by a tribunal in 2017 to apply for citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019.
The court observed that petitioner Bablu Paul, a resident of Patharkandi in southern Assam’s Karimganj district, can “get the benefit of citizenship” under the CAA that “lifted” the “bar to get citizenship by registration” for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
Mr. Paul is a Hindu.
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