Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 12 · Decided 18 January 1967
Syed Khawaja Moinuddin v. Government of India and 3 ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 12 · [1967] 2 S.C.R. 401
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 237/1966
- Decided
- 18 January 1967
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA, G.K. MITTER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
401 ('itizenship Rules, 1956, Schedule 111, para 3-When detailed enquiry 011 the acquisi;/011 of foreign citizenship necessary. The appellant who was born in India left for Pakistan in 1951 at the age of 13. He stayed there till 1955, when he came to India as a Pakistani citizen with a he was deported to Pakistan. Jn 1964, he again came to India with a Pakistani passport. In order to determine his nationality for the purpose of deporting him, the Govcrn­ rnent of India issued notice to him to n1ake representations, if .any. 'fhc appellant mac!> two representations, and
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