Guwahati, December 13: India should have been declared a Hindu country after the partition, said Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen of Meghalaya High Court while delivering his judgment in a case pertaining to domicile certificate on Monday. Justice Sen, who became a permanent judge of the Meghalaya High Court in January 2014, said nobody should attempt to make India an Islamic country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will understand this.

In his many observations, Justice Sen said India was one of the largest kingdoms of the world, which was ruled by Hindu kings but the “Mughal came to India and captured the different parts” of the country. He added that like Pakistan which became an Islamic country after the partition, India should have been declared a Hindu nation. Query on Cow Slaughter by Muslim in Front of Hindus in Indraprastha University's Law Paper, Inquiry Ordered.

"Pakistan declared themselves as an Islamic country and India since was divided on the basis of religion should have also been declared as a Hindu country but it remained as a secular country," Justice Sen observed. He urged the central government to give citizenship to non-Muslim and tribal communities like Khasis from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

"I request our beloved Prime Minister, Home Minister, Law Minister and Hon’ble Members of the Parliament to bring a law to allow the Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhist, Parsis, Christians, Khasis, Jaintias and Garos who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to live in this country peacefully and with full dignity without making any cut off year and be given citizenship without any question or production of any documents," Justice Sen said in his judgment.

He further clarified that he had nothing against the Muslim community living in India. "I am not against my Muslim brothers and sisters who are residing in India for generations and abiding Indian laws, they should also be allowed to live peacefully," he said. He also said NRC is a “fool-proof state machinery” for accentuating “division and divide and it would be inhumanity, bestiality and injustice of the worst kind if ever the NRC non-qualifiers… are sent to the detention camps, made to languish and perish”.

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