August 16, 2026 07:20 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
After SC rebuke, BCI chief apologises to NALSAR students over enrolment freeze row | Independence Day: PM Modi’s big youth pitch— AI training, free coaching amid exam row and job concerns | ‘Shakti Ki Saptadhara’: Modi reveals 7 pillars to power India’s next leap in his I-Day speech from Red Fort | West Bengal STF arrests 3 more suspected Pakistani spies in Cooch Behar | Bengal man arrested in Bengaluru over terror links, Afghanistan travel plan | Ajit Doval breaks silence on Operation Sindoor in Discovery’s explosive new docuseries | Rahul Gandhi's 'mock hug' taunt sparks row; Centre stresses 'mutual respect' with Italy | Delhi on high alert: Bomb threat to High Court, airport and multiple locations ahead of I-Day | ‘Who are they to interfere?’: CJI Surya Kant slams Bar Council of India over NALSAR students’ enrolment row | 'Shows how low Congress has sunk': BJP slams Rahul Gandhi over Modi foreign policy jibe

Assam police constable asked to prove himself as Indian citizen

| | Jun 12, 2017, at 01:15 am
Guwahati, June 11(IBNS) : A shocking news came to light, while a Foreigners Tribunal (FT) Court in Assam has asked an Assam police constable to prove that he is an Indian citizen.

According to the reports, a FT court has recently issued notice to an Assam police constable Abu Taher Ahmed, who presently served at South Salmara police station in South Salmara Mankachar district and asked him to prove himself as an Indian citizen.

The notice was issued on Mar 15 last, under the Foreigners Tribunal case no 2123/2016 and police case no 1066/2000.

The court asked the Assam police constable to prove his citizenship by appearing before the FT court on Aug 8 next.

A top police official said that, 33-year-old Abu Taher Ahmed, a resident of South Salmara, had joined the Assam police on 2008.

Abu Taher Ahmed said that following the court notice he appeared before the FT court on June 8 last, but will need to be present on the next hearing on Aug 8.

Abu further said that the names of his grandfather Shohidullah Sheikh and father Maziur Rahman were included in the 1951 National Register of Citizens (NRC).

"My father had passed the 10th board examination in 1978. I born and grown up in South Salmara, "Abu said.

 

Image: Google Map

Meanwhile, the top police official said that, the voters registration put Abu in the Doubtful voters (D-voters) list.

"Now the FT court will decide as Abu is an Indian citizen or not," the police official said.


(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath) 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.