Between 1985 and 2019, Foreigner Tribunals in Assam have declared over 63,000 persons as foreigners in ex-parte proceedings. In the absence of a steadfast procedure to re-scrutinise these decisions, Assam’s citizens continue to be treated with indignity, stripped of their citizenship in their own country
If restoring a dead man’s citizenship twenty years after it was first contested and two years after his death does not have to remain a cruel joke, his case needs to be made an example and precedent for similar cases.
