"Benefit Of CAA Available": Gauhati HC Asks East-Pakistan Immigrant To Apply For Citizenship, Sets Aside Order Declaring Him 'Foreigner'.
Setting aside an order of a Foreigner's Tribunal which had declared a Hindu Man, who had migrated from erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as a Foreigner, the Gauhati High Court recently directed him to apply for citizenship by taking benefit of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
This order came from the Bench of Justice N. Kotiswar Singh and Justice Malasri Nandi which was hearing the plea of one Bablu Paul who had moved the Court challenging the 2017 order of the Foreigners' Tribunal-II of declaring him as a foreigner.