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The Emergency Then: Life in Jail https://www.newsclick.in/emergency-then-life-jail Prabir Purkayastha 25 Jun 2022
The author, a student in JNU during Mrs Gandhi’s Emergency, was jailed under MISA. In this extract from a longer work on resisting political emergencies, he remembers life in jail in 1975.
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Bangladeshi national contested 2021 assembly seat for TMC, finds Calcutta HC https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/kolkata-news/bangladeshi-national-contested-2021-assembly-seat-for-tmc-finds-calcutta-hc-101653104404572.html
An inquiry ordered by the Calcutta high court found TMC candidate Alo Rani Sarkar to be a Bangladeshi national by virtue of birth.
Sarkar’s lawyers claimed in court that though born in Bengal’s Hooghly district in 1969 she became a Bangladeshi citizen after her marriage to Dr Harendra Nath Sarkar in 1980 but she has left him because of matrimonial discord and returned to India.
The lawyers said she enrolled her name in the electoral roll of Bangladesh in 2012 “out of mistake” and it came to her notice in 2020 when she requested the Election Commission secretariat at Dhaka to delete it.
justice Bibek Chaudhuri rules “Even if the petitioner has voter identity card, Aadhar card and passport, the said documents do not prove her citizenship of this country.
the petitioner has claimed to be the citizen of this country by birth. But from the inquiry report which she relies in her written objection against the application under Order VII Rule 11(d) of the CPC it is ascertained that her parents used to live in Bangladesh and she came to India with her uncle in her childhood, meaning thereby that the petitioner was born in Bangladesh,”
Alo Rani Sarkar; says: I was born in 1969 in this country. Our family moved to Baidyabati in the Hooghly district in 1971. We have ancestral property in Bangladesh,” - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ruled-bangladeshi-by-calcutta-hc-tmc-s-alo-rani-sarkar-says-i-was-born-in-101653193051851.html