Supreme Court of India

Akbar Khan Alam Khan and Another v. The Union of India and Others

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Reported as [1962] 1 S.C.R. 779
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 5 April 1961

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Citizenship-Suit for declaration of rights as Indian Citizens­ ]urisdiction of Civil Court-Citizenship Act, r955 (57 of r955), s. 9(2). The only question that a civil court is precluded from determining under s. 9(2) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, read with r. 30 of the Rules framed under the Act is the question as to whether, \Vhen or how any person has acquired the citizenship of another country. They are not prevented from determining other questions concerning the nationality of a person. Where, therefore, a suit brought for a declaration that the appellants were Indian Citizens, where

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Of those, 1 followed · 1 referred to

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