Assam MP Subba’s birth certificate is fake: SC

The SC directed Congress MP from Assam, Mani Subba, to respond to a CBI report which questioned the veracity of his birth certificate.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed controversial Congress MP from Assam, Mani Kumar Subba, to respond to a CBI report which questioned the veracity of his birth certificate following a probe over a petition which alleged that he was a Nepalese citizen.

“The birth certificate produced by Subba is not genuine,” a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan said after perusing the CBI report. “The report is against you,” the Bench also comprising Justices R V Raveendran and M K Sharma said.

After dilly-dallying for almost a year, the probe agency on December 10 last, had placed its report in a sealed cover before the court on allegations questioning the citizenship of MP from Tezpur.

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The Bench declined to make the report public and said it would only be given to Subba for responding and posted the matter for further hearing after the summer vacation.

The court was hearing a PIL filed by a Noida resident, Birendra Nath Singh, who alleged that the MP and lottery baron was a Nepalese citizen and had come to India after a murder case was registered against him there in early 1970s.

CBI sources had said that during investigations it was found that the date of birth certificate submitted by Subba suggesting that he was born in Silliguri in West Bengal was not authentic.

Subba had given a birth certificate claiming that he was born in 1958, contrary to the records available with the Assam Regional Passport office which showed his year of birth as 1961. According to his earlier affidavit submitted in the 1998 Lok Sabha, his year of birth was 1951.

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