4.8 million married women under cloud of losing their citizenship rights:Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind

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Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind under the leadership of its national president Qari Syed Mohammed Usman Mansoorpuri and General Secretary Maulana Syed Mahmood Asad Madani today in New Delhi, stated that, North Eastern State of Assam is once again on boil.

When Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister, he initiated talks with various groups which resulted into Assam Accord in 1985, where it was agreed that anyone who has entered Assam on or before March 24,1971 will be deemed as citizen of India.

However, some fringe groups and communal organisations field series of PILs before the Supreme Court seeking direction that the said amendment made by Rajiv Govt. in section 6A of the Citizenship Act be declared unconstitutional.

Maulana Syed Mahmood Asad Madani, said that, when the apex court was seized of the matter, the division bench of the Gauhati High Court had put a question mark on the nationality of some 4.8 million married women of Assam by declaring that a certificate issued by the Goan Panchayat Secretary and counter signed by the Revenue officer of the state is not a public.
This issue cropped up when Gauhati High Court rejected the Panchayat Certificate of a lady, Munwara Begum, saying that the same is not a valid document as the Panchayat Secretary not competent to issue such a certificate.