Not correct to assume citizen granted asylum overseas ceases to be citizen of parent nation: HC

It may not be correct to assume that an Indian national granted asylum overseas ceases to be the country's citizen, the Delhi High Court has said while deciding a woman's plea for restoration of her passport which was denied by the Centre on the presumption that she had been granted asylum in France.

Justice Vibhu Bakhru said, "The assumption that a citizen who has been granted asylum overseas, ceases to be a citizen of this country may not be correct,.."