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A.F.R.

Court No. - 40

Case :- WRIT - C No. - 28103 of 2021

Petitioner :- Giri Kristian Csiszar

Respondent :- Union Of India Through Its Ministry Of Home Affairs And 4

Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Vineet Kumar Singh,Rahul Kumar Sharma

Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Arvind Nath Agrawal,C.S.C.

Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J.

Hon'ble Vikas Budhwar,J.

(Oral Judgment by Hon'ble Vikas Budhwar, J.)

1.

Learned Standing Counsel has filed counter affidavit on behalf of

respondents 3 to 5 which is taken on record.

2.

This is a petition at the instance of a Finnish national seeking

citizenship of India by naturalisation as per the provisions en-grafted under

Section 6(1) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the Act of

1955).

3.

As per the pleadings worded in the petition, the petitioner claims

himself to be a citizen of Republic of Finland, who was born on 29.12.1981.

According to the petitioner in the year 1983, he visited India at the age of 2

years along with his parents and stayed in India for approximately two

months. Subsequently, from 1985 to 1990, the petitioner went to Australia in

order to pursue his studies and thereafter in the year 1990 again he came back

to India and lived in the birth place of Lord Sri Krishna i.e. Vrindavan for

approximately six months. In the meantime, from 1990 to 1996, the petitioner

pursued his education upto High School level and thereafter from 1997 to

2000, he pursued his studies in Computer Mechanic from Finland. As per the

pleading the petitioner had spiritual bent of mind and he got attracted towards

the preaching and the aura of Lord Krishna so he came to India and in the

month of August, 2001 and he joined one of the Ashram in Vrindavan in the

State of Uttar Pradesh and become the disciple of Narayan Goswami Maharaj

Ji.

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4.

Petitioner has come up with a case that he is living in India since 2001

and he has renounced the materialistic possession of the wordily life and had

inculcated the India cultural and spiritual preaching and he in his inner heart

is attracted towards to the life so led by Lord Krishna and he has made up his

mind to live his rest of the life in Vrindavan Mathura i.e. in India.

5.

In the aforesaid backdrop, the petitioner preferred an application under

Section 6(1) of the 1995 Act read with Rule 10(1) (a) being Form (VIII) of the

Citizenship Rules, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as 2009, Rules) after

completing the requisite formalities as provided therein before the competent

authority seeking grant of citizenship by naturalisation on 8.4.2015.

6.

As per the provisions contained under the 1955 Act and the Rules, 2009

framed therein under a notice was published in widely circulated newspapers

seeking response/objection from an objector as to why the application so

preferred by the petitioner for grant of citizenship by naturalisation be not

acceded with. A report was also called upon by Additional District Magistrate

(Administration) Mathura from Superintendent of Police, Mathura to which a

report was submitted by the latter before the former on 6.5.2013

recommending the case of the petitioner for grant of citizenship by a

naturalisation.

7.

On 6.7.2016 the respondent no.3 recommended the case of the

petitioner for grant of citizenship by naturalisation by virtue of letter

no.737/Chh.Vi-3-2016-30M/15 dated 06/07/2016 before the respondent no.1.

Eventually, respondent no.1 on 15.12.2016 sent a letter to the respondent no.3

providing as under:-

“To

The Secretary

Government of Uttar Pradesh

Home (Visa-2) Department

Lucknow-226001

Subject:-Grant of Indian Citizenship by Naturalization under

section 6(1) of the Citizenship Act, 1955-Case of Giri Kristian

Csiszar S/O Istvan Csiszar, a/an Finland national.

Sir,

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I am directed to refer to the State Government's letter

No.737/Chh.Vi-3-2016-30M/15 dated 06/07/2016 on the subject

cited above.