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Declared Foreigner In Assam, Woman Gets Citizenship Under CAA | India News

Declared Foreigner In Assam, Woman Gets Citizenship Under CAA | India News

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Last Updated:March 06, 2026, 22:42 IST Deepali Das from Cachar, once declared a foreigner, has gained Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The woman, identified as Deepali Das (60), is a resident of Dholai in Cachar district. In a significant development in Assam’s efforts to address the issue of illegal infiltration, a woman from Cachar district in southern Assam who had earlier been declared a foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal has now been granted Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Despite being declared a foreigner earlier, she has secured citizenship under the provisions of the CAA. The woman, identified as Deepali Das (60), is a resident of Dholai in Cachar district. She was arrested on May 5, 2019, on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. Her arrest followed an investigation report submitted by police officer Ajmal Hossain Laskar. Following proceedings before the Foreigners’ Tribunal, Deepali Das was declared a foreigner and was subsequently lodged in the detention camp located inside Silchar Central Jail, where she spent nearly two years. In 2021, she …

Supreme Court To Hear Petitions Challenging Citizenship Amendment Act On May 5 | India News

Supreme Court To Hear Petitions Challenging Citizenship Amendment Act On May 5 | India News

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Last Updated:February 19, 2026, 15:38 IST The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, which allows non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan to get citizenship, has been challenged as unconstitutional. Supreme Court of India. (File photo) The Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it will hear petitions challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, from May 5, 2026. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi was considering the petitions for procedural directions. The Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act in December 2019, which amended the earlier Citizenship Act of 2015. The law provided a fast-track pathway to Indian citizenship for religious minorities who escaped persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The matter was last listed in the apex court on March 19, 2024. Senior Advocate Indira Jaising urged that the petitions concerning Assam and the other North-Eastern states be heard separately, as they involve issues related to Section 6A of the Citizenship Act and the interline permit. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that matters related to Assam and Tripura …

For First Time, 40-Year-Old Bangladeshi Woman Gets Indian Citizenship Under CAA | India News

For First Time, 40-Year-Old Bangladeshi Woman Gets Indian Citizenship Under CAA | India News

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Last Updated:December 13, 2025, 13:32 IST A 40-year-old woman from Sribhumi, Assam, became the first in the state to get Indian citizenship under CAA, with approval also granted to a 61-year-old man from Cachar. The CAA, passed on December 11, 2019, had sparked protests in several states including Assam. Since the rules became effective last year, early 40 people in the state have applied. (AP Photo/File) For the first time under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a 40-year-old woman from Assam’s Sribhumi district, who came to India from Bangladesh in 2007, has been granted Indian citizenship. NDTV quoted senior advocate Dharmananda Deb, a former Foreigners Tribunal (FT) member in Silchar, saying the woman, who uses the surname Banerjee, had arrived in Silchar in 2007 to accompany a family member for treatment at Silchar Medical College and Hospital. During this, she met a man from Sribhumi (formerly Karimganj district), married him, and stayed back. The couple later had a son. While her family in Bangladesh continues to live in Chittagong, she applied for citizenship after the …

‘Used Father-In-Law’s Name To Get Voter ID’: Bangladeshi Man Admits Amid Bengal SIR Exercise | India News

‘Used Father-In-Law’s Name To Get Voter ID’: Bangladeshi Man Admits Amid Bengal SIR Exercise | India News

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Last Updated:November 19, 2025, 23:09 IST Mohammad Khalil Molla and Seikh Rezaul Mondal used their father-in-law’s names for Indian voter IDs, sparking concern in Shrirampur amid West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision. Mohammad Khalil Molla came to India from Bangladesh 35 years ago and got his Voter ID card in 2023. A Bangladeshi man has admitted that he used the name of their wife’s father in place of their own father’s name to make Indian voter ID, sparking concerns amid Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. “I got my voter card in 2023. I am not Indian I have come from Bangladesh. I used my father-in-law’s name in the section of my father’s name to makes card,” said Mohammad Khalil Molla, who came to India 35 years ago. Initially, he stayed in Topsia, then in Howrah, Amta and finally settled in Shrirampur in Uluberia. In another case, locals have alleged another man, Seikh Rezaul Mondal, had used his father-in-law’s name as his father’s name, Iglas Mondal to obtain a voter identity card. His father’s name …

Jamia Millia Islamia revokes suspension of 10 students for participating in protests on campus | Latest News India

Jamia Millia Islamia revokes suspension of 10 students for participating in protests on campus | Latest News India

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New Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia has revoked the suspension of at least 10 students who were penalised for allegedly participating in protests on campus. Jamia Millia Islamia revokes suspension of 10 students for participating in protests on campus However, the students have been asked to sign a “bond of good conduct” within seven working days of receiving the revocation letter. This move follows a Delhi High Court order staying the university’s suspension action. Last month, JMI had suspended 17 students for participating in protests against disciplinary action taken against two PhD scholars who allegedly organized “Jamia Resistance Day” on December 15, 2024. This annual event commemorates the beginning of the 2019 protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act . The students were also protesting the university’s ban on campus demonstrations. Following their police detention, which ended an indefinite sit-in protest inside the campus, the university suspended them on charges of alleged vandalism and unauthorized agitation. The JMI administration has not made any official comments regarding the matter or the revocation of the suspension of the remaining …

India’s citizenship laws: The Constituent Assembly dilemma  

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When lines are drawn and land violently cleaved apart, new questions are asked. Who belongs where? And how does one articulate this nature of belonging? After India won a hard-fought independence in 1947, this conundrum fell to the Constituent Assembly in August 1949. The Partition had triggered waves of migrations across India’s western and eastern frontiers; many Indians also lived abroad, sometimes in difficult conditions. It was imperative to discuss citizenship and define the notion of an Indian Citizen. All articles related to citizenship “received far more thought and consideration during the last few months than any other article contained in this Constitution,” India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remarked, standing tall in the circular Central Hall, on August 12. The Constituent Assembly would debate, deliberate and dissent over citizenship and minority rights. In the face of anxiety over migration and a perceived threat from “illegal immigrants,” some saw religious identity as the rightful determinant. But consensus then deemed this was a discriminatory yardstick, and citizenship by religion was put to bed. The path of …

Man Who Got Citizenship Under CAA

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Amit Shah on said the decades-long wait for those persecuted is over. New Delhi: These are “new birth certificates”. This is how Dayal Singh, a refugee from Pakistan, described the citizenship certificates issued to him, his son and his daughter. Mr Singh, 47, who has been living in a shanty in North Delhi’s Majnu-ka-Tilla since 2013 after he migrated from Pakistan with his family, was among the 14 people to be given the certificate under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Wednesday. The law grants Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Singh’s wife Mira, 40, and his other five children are yet to get their certificates but she is happy that a part of the family is now ‘Bharatiya Nagriks’ (Indian citizens). “Our journey was filled with challenges due to the identity we carried with us. But now we are ‘Bharatiya Nagriks’,” said Mira while talking to PTI in the shanty that is part of a camp for refugees, some of whom stay in tents. Most are engaged in odd …

CAA Citizenship Certificate | Will I.N.D.I.A Repeal ‘Guarantee Of Dignity’? | English News | News18

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CAA Citizenship Certificate | Will I.N.D.I.A Repeal ‘Guarantee Of Dignity’? | English News | News18 The first set of citizenship certificates to 14 people was issued under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA today, nearly two months after the Centre notified it, initiating the process of granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Source link