New Delhi, July 3 -- The Gauhati High Court recently upheld a Foreigners Tribunal's order declaring a local resident a foreigner, after finding that the 15 documents he relied on failed to establish his Indian citizenship, legal news website Bar and Bench reported.

A division bench of Justice Kalyan Rai Surana and Justice Shamima Jahan dismissed the petition filed by 38-year-old Aminul Hoque, a Guwahati resident, who had challenged a 2019 order of the Foreigners Tribunal.

Hoque had argued that he was an Indian citizen by birth and relied on a series of documents, including the 1951 National Register of Citizens (NRC), electoral rolls from 1966 onwards, a 1973 land sale deed, his PAN card, Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) and school ...