SC restores citizenship to Assam man declared foreigner 2 yrs ago

Guwahati | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

Summary:

This being so, the grandfather’s identity, father’s identity etc. In fact, the appellant has himself produced a document of 1981 from the Income Tax Department giving his Permanent Account Number. There is no doubt that the great grandfather’s name Amtullah appears as Amtullah throughout the document. Equally, there is no doubt about the father’s name which appears as Hakim Ali throughout. The only discrepancy found is that in some of the documents Kefatullah later becomes Kematullah,” the Supreme Court observed.The court observed that the NRC Registration details of the year 1971 of his grandfather is noted to be Kefatullah..