Karnataka HC grants bail to Bangladeshi woman amid CAA row

Bengaluru | Wednesday | 29th January, 2020

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By Express News ServiceBENGALURU: A 37-year-old Christian Bangladeshi woman has invoked the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, to obtain bail from the Karnataka High Court even as protests against the controversial law continue across the country. The court has imposed conditions that she should execute a bail bond of Rs 2 lakh and cooperate with the investigation. After completing her diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery in Ranchi in 2006, she worked at many reputed hospitals. Authorities registered a case against her on March 28, 2019, on charges of obtaining those records and Indian passport fraudulently. Her bail plea was dismissed by a Sessions Court in city on December 4, 2019..