Doubtful voters

Subject – Polity

Context – NRC: only 1,032 doubtful cases referred for review

Concept –

D Voters is a category of voters in Assam whose citizenship has been doubtful (due to lack of citizenship credentials in form of supporting documents) or is under dispute.
Foreigner Tribunal set up under Foreigner Tribunals order 1964 determines once status as D voters and such persons can’t hold voter I-card.
Category was introduced in 1997 when the Election Commission of India (ECI) was revising the state’s voter list in the wake of huge immigration from Bangladesh.
While ‘D’ voters continue to remain on Assam’s electoral roll, they cannot vote in an election unless their case is decided by a Foreigners’ Tribunal.
They have not been defined in the Citizenship Act, 1955 or the Citizenship Rules of 2003.

To know about NRC, please refer September 2021 DPN.