Across Assam, decades of government-issued records are failing the citizenship test before Foreigners Tribunals and the Gauhati High Court. As spelling variations, age mismatches, and shifting residences come under scrutiny, Rahul Karmakar speaks with families that are fighting to prove they belong
SC sets aside 27 judgments of Guahati High Court on foreigners, tells tribunals to adjudicate afresh; it says such declarations cannot be sustainable if “procedure adopted is mechanical, one-sided, or devoid of application of mind”
The documents Aminul Hoque, a daily-wage labourer, submitted included a 1973 land purchase deed, a school certificate, and a copy of the 1951 National Register of Citizens