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Two persons, including a woman, person been granted Indian citizenship nether the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA), taking the number of radical receiving citizenship nether the Act to 4 successful Assam, their lawyer said.
“For the archetypal time, a pistillate was granted citizenship nether the Act successful the northeastern State,” said elder advocator Dharmananda Deb, who had besides been a subordinate of the Foreigners' Tribunal successful Silchar.
“The 40-year-old pistillate had entered India from Bangladesh successful 2007 and had been surviving successful Sribhumi, portion the 61-year-old man, who came to the state successful 1975, had been surviving successful Cachar,” Mr. Deb said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs issued the certificates connected Friday (December 12, 2025), and the citizenship is deemed effectual from the time some individuals entered India, Mr. Deb said, portion declining to disclose their names, citing imaginable societal harassment.
He said, “The woman, who hails from Bangladesh's Chittagong, had accompanied a household subordinate for attraction astatine Silchar Medical College and Hospital. She met a antheral from Sribhumi, joined him, gave commencement to a lad and stayed back.”
She had applied for citizenship aft the CAA rules were notified past year, Mr. Deb said. Her archetypal application, submitted successful July past year, was rejected owed to disorder caused by the delimitation workout earlier the Lok Sabha elections. Badarpur, wherever she present lives, was partially moved from Sribhumi to Cachar, creating uncertainty implicit the jurisdiction of her area.
The lawyer had reapplied, and her lawsuit was yet approved. Mr. Deb said, “She is the archetypal pistillate successful Assam to person citizenship nether the CAA, and notably the archetypal successful the State to beryllium granted citizenship done the registration route.”
"This was granted nether Section 5(1)(c), work with Section 6B of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which allows a idiosyncratic joined to an Indian national to registry arsenic an Indian national aft residing successful India for 7 years," helium explained. The 2nd beneficiary, a nonmigratory of Silchar town, came to India astatine the property of 11 from Bangladesh's Moulvibazar district, and had besides joined locally and started a family.
He received citizenship done the naturalisation process. Assam present has 4 individuals who entered India aft the 1971 cut-off and person been granted citizenship nether the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
Mr. Deb said helium has assisted astir 25 applicants implicit the past 18 months, but galore applications were rejected oregon stay pending. Around 40 radical person truthful acold applied for citizenship successful the State since the rules were notified past year.
The Act enables Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and Parsi immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who entered India betwixt March 25, 1971 and December 31, 2014 to use for citizenship.
The CAA, passed connected December 11, 2019, had sparked statewide protests successful Assam, starring to the decease of 5 persons successful the violence. Assam has astir 2 lakh individuals identified arsenic doubtful citizens, but lone a tiny fig person applied nether the CAA truthful far.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that astir Hindus migrated to Assam from Bangladesh earlier the cut-off day of 1971.
