Citizenship issue: Subba told to reply

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

Refusing to bring the report into public domain, the bench posted the matter for hearing in July.

On December 10, 2007, the CBI had furnished its findings on the allegations, raising questions about the MP8217;s citizenship. The MP had given a birth certificate claiming he was born in 1958, contrary to the records of the Assam Regional Passport office, which showed his year of birth as 1961. According to another affidavit submitted in the 1998 Lok Sabha, his year of birth was 1951.