CHENNAI The Madras High Court has held that though documents such as Aadhaar, voter ID and marriage certificate have been obtained by a Sri Lanka-born national, she cannot claim to be an Indian national unless the status is conferred by the competent authority.
Justice T Raja dismissed a plea of the daughter of a Sri Lankan woman, who has been detained at the International Airport here for the past few weeks, seeking her release.
“Although she has produced the Aadhaar card, driving licence, voter identity card and the marriage registration certificate of her mother, her mother has not made any application before the competent authority seeking conferment of her status as an Indian citizen,” the judge said in his order recently.
“Above all, since the Sri Lankan government has admitted the status of the petitioner’s mother as Sri Lankan and also issued the passport inviting her to return to the country (Sri lanka), the writ petition fails,” the judge said.
Following the ethnic war, the woman had migrated to Tamil Nadu in 1989 and has been residing in the state since then. She married an Indian citizen and had three children.
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