In 2016, Hasina Bhanu was found to be 'Indian by birth' by the FT. However, in March this year, it heard her case again and detained her for being a 'foreigner', prompting the Guwahati high court to step in.
A Foreigners' Tribunal's flip flop on a woman in Assam first declaring her an Indian and less than five years later a foreigner has irked the Gauhati High Court, which ordered her release from the detention camp and pulled up the tribunal.