Former Congress minister Avtar Henry acquitted in dual citizenship case after 15 years

Jalandhar: Former Punjab minister and Congress leader Avtar Henry was on Friday acquitted by a court in a 15-year-old dual citizenship case. A case was going on against him for contesting elections with Indian and foreign passports.

The charges against Henry could not be proved in the court of CJM NRI Gagandeep Singh Garg. After this, the court ordered his acquittal.

Henry’s name was removed from the voters’ list after being embroiled in a dual citizenship controversy in the last election, but now he will be able to contest. Due to this, his son Bawa Henry contested the election.

Gurjit Singh Sanghera had recorded his statement in the court that his father Avtar Henry had remarried without divorcing his mother.

He said his father went to the UK in 1962. There he married Surinder Kaur in 1965. He was born on 3 February 1966 and his father took UK citizenship on 10 January 1968.

After this, a medical card was made there and in 1968 he became a British passport. In 1969, his father came to India and remarried Harinder Kaur without divorcing Surinder Kaur. In 1997, he was an MLA and went to the UK to renew his medical card.