The calcutta High court recently delivered a ruling making it clear that having an Aadhaar or voter card alone does not make someone an indian citizen. During the hearing of a case concerning a couple who were recently detained on suspicion of unlawful entry, Justice Debangshu Basak made this comment.
 
 Police detained Dulal Shil and swapna Shil after they were accused of unlawfully entering India.  They had petitioned the calcutta High court for bail.
 
In india, there are four necessary government cards; without these, you might run into issues.
 
 The Shil couple's attorneys said during the court that their clients' voter and Aadhaar cards demonstrated their status as indian permanent residents.  The attorneys said that the pair had arrived in india in 2010, or around 15 years ago.
 
 In addition, anyone who entered india before 2014 ought to be regarded as an indian citizen following the citizenship amendment act (CAA) of the indian Constitution.  The attorney for the Shil couple said in court that his clients are indian citizens on this grounds.
 
Justice Basak retorted that voter cards and Aadhaar cards by themselves are insufficient to demonstrate indian citizenship.  He said that a large number of Bangladeshi nationals have also gotten indian national passports, and others are trying to use illicit tax payments in india to establish their citizenship.
 
 It has been demonstrated, Justice Basak said, that several infiltrators recently deported from the united states were also able to forge documents in other nations.  He underlined that infiltrators fabricate documents to demonstrate their indian citizenship in order to suit their preferences; this problem is not unique to India; it has also been noted in other nations.
 
Following these arguments, Justice Basak denied the Shil couple's bail request, arguing that a voter card and an Aadhaar card alone do not prove a person's citizenship.  This event has surfaced at a time when gaining citizenship using fraudulent documents is causing increasing worry in India.
 
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26/02/2025 09:16 AM