New FIR against former NRC chief for ‘allowing doubtful voters to enlist names’
- May 23, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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New FIR against former NRC chief for ‘allowing doubtful voters to enlist names’
Subject: Polity
Section: Constitution
Content:
- 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.