In re Singh

BLEDSOE, District Judge.

Mohan Singh, a high caste Plindu, competent in all moral and intellectual respects, has applied for citizenship. His application is resisted by the government upon the ground that, being a Hindu, he does not come within the terms of section 2169 of the Revised Statutes (Comp. St. § 4358). The matter has been presented in a very able and enlightening manner by the learned counsel for the petitioner (himself a naturalized Hindu), and has been submitted by the government upon the brief filed by it before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit in…