Statement I: The power to constitute Foreign Tribunals is vested only with the district magistrate.
Statement II: they are set up under the Citizenship Act of 1955.

Question

Question

Both the statements are individually true and statement II is the correct explanation of statement I
Both the statements are individually true and statement II is not the correct explanation of statement I.
Statement I is true but statement II is false
Statement I is false but statement II is true.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option 3, i.e. Statement I is true but statement II is false.

Key Points

Foreigners tribunals are constituted under the Foreigners Act 1946.

Each tribunal is headed by a member who can be any retired judicial officer, bureaucrat, lawyer.
He should be having a minimum of seven years of legal practice.
The Ministry of Home Affairs amended the foreigner Tribunal Order 1964.
After which district magistrates in all states and union territories are empowered to set up tribunals.
It is to decide a person staying in India illegally is a foreigner or not.
Before the amendment, the power was with the centre.
After the amendment one individual also can approach the tribunal while it was not the case earlier.
Now the central government or state government or the Union territory administration or the collector or the district magistrate may refer the question as to whether a person is not a foreigner to a tribunal for its opinion.
It should be done under the definition of the foreigner in the Foreigners Act 1946.