New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday left it to the CBI to take appropriate action against controversial former Congress MP from Assam, Mani Kumar Subba, whose citizenship has came under a cloud following an inquiry by the agency.
"Let CBI take appropriate action," a Bench headed by
Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan said.
The apex court had ordered an inquiry by the CBI on a
PIL alleging that Subba was a resident of Nepal and had
acquired Indian citizenship by fraud.
The PIL, filed by a Noida resident, Birendra Nath
Singh in 2005, had alleged that the then Lok Sabha MP from
Tezpur and a lottery baron had come to India after a murder
case was registered against him in Nepal in the early 1970s.
Subba had claimed before the apex court that his date
of birth was March 16, 1958. He had also claimed that he was
born in Dadgram village in Darjeeling district of West Bengal
and his parents had migrated from Singtam village in Sikkim.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 13:22