A Legal Analysis of the Status of the Bihari Community Living in Bangladesh: Becoming Citizen from Statelessness
Abstract
Nobel Ashfaque and Md. Abu Hanif
This research aims to examine the current status of the Bihari Community. History, national statutes and judicial interpretations are highly scrutinised in order to understand how this community became stateless and what is their current status. This study has found that after the groundbreaking judgement of Sadaqat Khan Case, all the people of the Bihari Community became the citizens of Bangladesh except the people who were above the age of eighteen years during the liberation war. Thereafter, it is suggested that all those people should be allowed to become the citizen of Bangladesh as their repatriation is not possible and declaring them as the citizen of Bangladesh would not be the violation of any current Act regarding the citizenship of Bangladesh.