Search Results for Tag : Foreigner
Notifications & Circulars
Permanent residency status for foreigners(29.11.2016)
The Government has decided to grant Permanent Residency Status (PRS) for 10 years with multiple entry to foreign investors making investment of minimu.....
Tags : Status, Residency, Foreigner
Liberalization of visa regime of India during the last one year(14.11.2018)
India has a robust visa regime to facilitate smooth entry, stay and movement of foreigners in India for legitimate purposes while ensuring the securit.....
Tags : Liberalization, Visa regime, Foreigners
News
SC Allows Foreigners to Submit Representations Seeking Permission to go Back(16.10.2020)
Supreme Court has allowed foreign citizens, who are facing criminal proceedings in Delhi for participating in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Niza.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Tablighi Jamaat Foreigners
Gauhati High Court Sets Aside Ex-Parte Order Declaring Man as Foreigner(14.09.2021)
Gauhati High Court has observed that citizenship, being an essential right of a person, ordinarily, should be decided based on merit by considering th.....
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Delhi Court Orders Deportation of 8 Foreigners During Pendency of Revision Against Their Discharge(09.11.2020)
Delhi Court has ordered for deportation of 8 Kazak nationals related to Tablighi Jamaat while a revision petition against their discharge is pending b.....
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Calcutta HC Seeks Response on Application of Foreigners Act, 1946 on Religious Minorities(29.09.2021)
Calcutta High Court has sought the State government's stand on the application of the Foreigners Act, 1946 in respect of prosecution of religious mino.....
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Del. HC: Severity of Offence Can’t Disentitle Foreigner to Get Parole for Filing SLP(28.09.2023)
Delhi High Court has held that right of a convicted foreigner to file a Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court can’t be denied merely on the .....
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SC Allows Woman Declared as Foreigner to File Review in Gauhati High Court(27.01.2021)
Supreme Court has granted liberty to a woman, who was declared as a foreigner by a Foreigners Tribunal in Assam, to file a review petition in the Gauh.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Woman Declared as Foreigner
SC Asks State to Provide Information on Detention Centres and Foreigners Detained in Assam(29.01.2019)
Supreme Court has required the State to furnish details of the number of Detention Centres in Assam and the number of inmates they house while hearin.....
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy: SC Agrees to Hear Petition for Additional Compensation from Union Carbide(29.01.2019)
Supreme Court has agreed to hear in April the curative petition filed by the Centre in 2011 for additional compensation for Bhopal gas tragedy victims.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Foreigners Detained in Assam Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Gauhati High Court Orders Release of Woman Declared Foreigner Even Before Tribunal’s Order(27.12.2019)
Gauhati High Court has directed the Superintendent of Police (Border) Sivasagar to release a woman from the detention centre at Jorhat on the account .....
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CIVIL - SC Slams Assam Government over Functioning of Foreigners Tribunal(14.03.2019)
Supreme Court has pulled up Assam Government over inadequacies in the functioning of foreigners tribunals in the state and sought details on it by Mar.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Foreigners Tribunal, Assam Government
Gauhati HC Quashes Order of Foreign Tribunal Declaring Woman as Foreigner(08.02.2021)
Gauhati High Court has observed that "citizenship of a person is a valuable right" while quashing an order of a Foreigners Tribunal which declared a w.....
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SC Slams Assam Government Over Illegal Foreigners(02.04.2019)
Supreme Court has accused Assam Government of playing hide and seek with court's resolve to unravel the mystery of over 40 lakh people not figuring in.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Illegal Foreigners
Gauhati HC Imposes Cost on ERO for Referring Ret. Army Officer to Foreigners Tribunal(21.02.2023)
Gauhati High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 10,000 on Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) of for referring a retired army personnel who has rendered.....
Tags : Gauhati High Court, Foreigners Tribunal, Citizenship
Gauhati HC Sets Aside Order of Forigners Tribunal Declaring Resident of Jorgah Village as Foreigner(14.01.2022)
Gauhati High Court has set aside an order passed by a Foreigners' Tribunal declaring a resident of Jorgah village, Sonitpur as a foreigner after notin.....
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Guj. HC: Life and Liberty of Foreigner Can’t Be Invoked on His Behalf When He is Not in India(11.01.2023)
Gujarat High Court has held that a foreign citizen can’t invoke Right to life and liberty under the Article 21 of Indian Constitution if he is not him.....
Tags : Gujarat High Court, Foreigner, Liberty
Gauhati HC Sets Aside Foreigners Tribunal Order Declaring Son of Indian Citizens as Foreigner(26.02.2020)
Gauhati High Court has set aside the order of a Foreigners Tribunal for declaring a person as a foreigner, despite his parents being declared as India.....
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Gauhati HC Sets Aside Ex Parte Order of Foreigners Tribunal Declaring Person as Foreigner(02.03.2020)
Gauhati High Court has set aside ex parte order of Foreigners Tribunal declaring a person as foreigner noticing that the Tribunal had declared a perso.....
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Gauhati HC Grants Relief to Assam Resident Whose Deceased Mother was Declared Foreigner(08.02.2023)
Gauhati High Court has granted relief to Assam Resident, aggrieved by an ex-parte opinion of Foreigner's Tribunal, declaring his dead mother a foreign.....
Tags : Gauhati High Court, Foreigner's Tribunal, Citizen
Gauhati High Court Denies Relief to Person Declared Foreigner on Admission of Guilt(08.02.2022)
Gauhati High Court has held that its inherent power under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 is not to be exercised in a routine mann.....
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Gauhati HC Quashes Nagaon Tribunal’s 2018 Decision Declaring Assam Resident a ‘Foreigner’(18.01.2023)
Gauhati High Court while setting aside a 2018 order of Nagaon Trivunal declaring an Assam resident as a foreigner, has observing that the Foreigners T.....
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Gauhati High Court: No Authority to Transfer Proceedings Pending Before Foreigners' Tribunal(11.06.2019)
Gauhati High Court has noted that a proceeding before one Foreigners' Tribunal cannot be transferred to another Foreigners' Tribunal in exercise of p.....
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Supreme Court: Union Directed to Deport 17 Foreigners in Assam’s Transit Camps(17.05.2024)
Supreme Court has directed the Central Government to take immediate steps regarding the deportation of 17 foreigners detained in transit camps of Assa.....
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Gauhati HC Seeks Details of Female Foreigners Staying in Jails with Children Below 6 Years(17.05.2021)
Gauhati High Court has directed the State Government to give details of the mothers, declared as foreigners, who are presently in jails with their chi.....
Tags : Gauhati High Court, Female Foreigners Staying in Jails
Gau. HC: Res Judicata Not Attracted if Previous Order of Foreigners Tribunal is Unreasoned(06.03.2023)
Gauhati High Court has held that principle of res judicata will not apply to subsequent proceeding before Foreigners Tribunal to determine whether a p.....
Tags : Gauhati High Court, Foreigners Tribunal, Res Judicata
SC Issues Notice on Plea Seeking Release of Detainees in Assam Foreigners' Detention Centres(08.04.2020)
Supreme Court has issued notice to Centre and Assam Government on a plea seeking the release of persons who have spent more than two years in the fore.....
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SC Questions Logic Of Separating Families Of ‘Foreigners’ Detained In Assam Jails(14.09.2018)
Supreme Court has questioned the logic of separating family members of the declared foreign nationals in detention centres.
Tags : Supreme Court, Assam Jails, Foreigners
Bombay HC Quashes FIRs Against Tablighi Jamaat Foreigners(24.08.2020)
Bombay High Court has quashed the First Information Reports filed against a total of 29 foreign nationals who were booked under various provisions of .....
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Ker. HC: Foreign Travellers Overstaying After Expiry of Docs. Can’t be Treated as Infiltrators(12.09.2024)
Kerala High Court has observed that foreign nationals who entered India with valid documents and continued to stay even after expiry of such documents.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Foreign Nationals, Foreigners Act