Deccan Chronicle

RETD SOLDIER TOLD TO PROVE HIS CITIZENSHI­P

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Guwahati: An Assambased retired defence personnel has claimed that the Foreigners’ Tribunal has sent him a notice asking him to prove that he was not an illegal Bangladesh­i migrant but an Indian citizen.

Guwahati, Oct. 1: An Assam-based retired Defence personnel has claimed that the Foreigners’ Tribunal has sent him a notice asking him to prove that he was not an illegal Bangladesh­i migrant but an Indian citizen.

Mohd Azmal Hoque, the Junior Commission­ed Officer who had retired from service on September 30, 2016 told reporters that he had received the notice placing him in the doubtful-voter category. It also charged him with having entered India in 1971 without proper documents, he said.

“I have served the Indian Army for 30 years,” Hoque said adding that he had received the notice asking him to appear before a local tribunal on October 13 with relevant documents to prove his Indian citizenshi­p.

The retired JCO said, he had missed the first date of appearing before the tribunal on September 11 as he had received the notice after that date. He said, he will appear before the tribunal on October 13.

“In 2012 also, I had received a notice saying I was a doubtful voter but I submitted all documents in the tribunal court and it had declared me as an Indian citizen”, he said. “Why do I have to be humiliated so many times? I request the prime minister, the president and the home minister to end this harassment of a proper citizen,” Hoque said.

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Mohd Azmal Hoque

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