Supreme Court of India
Izhar Ahmad Khan v. Union of India
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What the Court ordered
In accordance with the decision of the majority, the petitions fail and are dismissed. There will be no Order as to costs.
Judgment, BY COURT, at p. 287
From the headnote
Citizenship, Termination of—Determination by Central Government—Rule making obtaining of passport from another country conclusive evidence—Validity—Citizenship Act, 1955 (57 of 1955), s. 9(2)—Citizenship Rules, 1956, Sch. III, r 3. The petitioners claiming to be Indian Citizens sought to enforce their fundamental rights under Art. 19 (1) (e) of the Constitution. The crucial question was whether they were citizens of India.…
Authorities it was built on
- D. B. Heiner v. John H. Donnan
- R. v. Brailsford
- In re Cohn
- Croft v. Dunphy
- The Central Provinces and Berar Act, No. XIV of 1938
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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