citizenship, letter of mandatory information of acquiring Indian citizenship to the concerned authority as well as letter of acknowledgement and approval of the mandatory obligations by the concerned authority all from the year 2008 to 2020. It has to be reminded that Dr. Ramesh lost his Indian citizenship in 1993 when he has voluntarily acquired German citizenship and in the same way he has lost his German citizenship after he has voluntarily acquired Indian citizenship in 2009. This is in confirm with the existing laws in both the countries.
However, Home Ministry has failed to submit Affidavit with any evidence documents regarding dual citizenship issue of Dr. Ramesh from German authorities as ordered by the High Court. High Court was serious that old documents were submitted in form of memos even though a detailed Affidavit was asked for with full information from Germany. It has ordered to submit the Affidavit on 20th January 2021 for the next hearing.
The background of this case lies in the main appeal of Dr. Ramesh’s lawyers to reaffirm the positive decision of the High Court in July 2019 of section 10.3 of the citizenship law in their favor which says that the citizenship of a person shall not be deprived unless it is not conducive to the public good. As is known, this decision was stuck down by the Home Ministry on 20th November 2019 and immediately on 22nd November 2019 Dr. Ramesh could get a stay order from the High Court. The present deliberations are concerned with this stay order and the next hearing is posted again on 20th January 2021.
