National Registry of Citizen and the Mohammad Sanaullah’s Case



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What is the issue?

  • Upon the orders of the Gauhati High Court, Mohammad Sanaullah was recently released on bail from a detention camp in Assam.

BACKGROUND

  • According to the Assam Accord, individuals who entered Assam after March 24, 1971 are illegal immigrants.
  • There are two parallel processes to establish citizenship:
  • These two processes are nominally and formally independent. But in practice, these two systems influence each other.
  • People, who have been declared as foreigners by the Foreigners Tribunals, and even their families, were dropped from the draft NRC.
  • Mohammad Sanaullahhad been detained few days back after a Foreigners Tribunal had declared him an illegal immigrant.
  • It was learnt that Mr. Sanaullah had served for three decades in the Indian Army.
  • Following this, after a week of sustained public pressure, the Gauhati High Court’s bail order has come.
  • The register is meant to be a list of Indian citizens living in Assam. It was first compiled in 1951, after the Census completed that year, a crude, approximate document with several irregularities in it.
  • One of the stated aims of the updating exercise is to identify so-called “illegal immigrants” in the state.
  • As per Assam accord, those who entered on or after March 25, 1971, the eve of the Bangladesh War, would be declared foreigners and deported.
  • The National Register of Citizens now takes its definition of illegal immigrants from the Assam Accord – anyone who cannot prove that they or their ancestors entered the country before the midnight of March 24, 1971, would be declared a foreigner and, presumably, face deportation.
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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