Citizenship Tangle

Assam teacher allegedly picked up from detention centre, pushed out of India along Bangladesh border

Khairul Islam told a Bangladeshi journalist that 13 other ‘declared foreigners’ were similarly expelled by the BSF. His case is pending in Supreme Court.

Rokibuz Zaman
· May 27, 2025 · 03:33 pm
Inclusion in draft NRC does not override foreigners tribunal’s declaration as non-citizen: SC

The man who approached the court had been declared a foreigner even though he submitted voter lists from before 1971 that included his grandparents’ names.

Scroll Staff
· May 20, 2025 · 12:29 pm
Why a maverick Assam activist is pushing Bengali-origin Muslims to boycott citizenship trials

Faruk Khan argues that the vilification of the community as foreigners needs to be fought politically – and not in the courts.

Rokibuz Zaman
· May 09, 2025 · 09:00 am

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