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GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has dismissed the writ petition of a woman, declared a “foreigner” by a foreigners’ tribunal, as she failed to establish her linkage with her father.
While passing its order, a division bench of Justices Manojit Bhuyan and Parthivjyoti Saikia quoted from the judgement of a 2016 case between Md. Babul Islam versus Union of India passed by the Gauhati HC. It had held that “PAN Card and Bank documents are not proof of citizenship”.
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