Rajasthan High Court Urges Centre to Revisit Citizenship Laws for Children Born Abroad to Indian Parents

The Rajasthan High Court urged the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to revisit citizenship laws affecting children born abroad to Indian parents.

Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand, hearing a petition filed by a five-year-old Australian-born girl, directed the FRRO to extend her visa without insisting on her mother's NOC and consider her OCI application sympathetically.

The Court held that deporting the child without her consent would violate Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.

The petition was disposed of accordingly.

[Seher Gogia v The Foreigners Regional Registration Officer & Anr.]