Delhi HC rules India-born Tibetan woman is citizen by birth

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Tenzin Nyidon

DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 6: The Delhi High Court on February 2 ruled that an India-born Tibetan woman living as a stateless person in Switzerland is a citizen of India by birth and directed authorities to issue her an Indian passport, rejecting the Ministry of External Affairs’ claim that she had voluntarily renounced Indian citizenship, according to a report by the Indian Express.

The petitioner, Yangchen Drakmargyapon, was born in Dharamshala in 1966 and has been stranded in Switzerland since 2014 without valid travel documents. Following the death of her husband, whose ashes were to be brought to India, she approached the court seeking recognition of her ci...

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