'Would Hide if a Police Van Passed': Assam Woman's Horrors of Citizenship Battle

Name: 'Would Hide if a Police Van Passed': Assam Woman's Horrors of Citizenship Battle
Uploaded: 2022-03-01T10:45:07+00:00
Duration: 6 min 41 s
Channel: The Quint
Description: "When I was declared a foreigner, I started hiding so that police would not arrest me," said 41-year-old Shefali Rani Das, sitting outside her home in Assam's Cachar district, something she hadn't been able to do peacefully in a while. Das was recently declared a 'citizen of India' by a foreigners’ tribunal (FT) in Assam’s Silchar following the intervention of the Gauhati High Court.

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"When I was declared a foreigner, I started hiding so that police would not arrest me," said 41-year-old Shefali Rani Das, sitting outside her home in Assam's Cachar district, something she hadn't been able to do peacefully in a while. Das was recently declared a 'citizen of India' by a foreigners’ tribunal (FT) in Assam’s Silchar following the intervention of the Gauhati High Court.

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