SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SECTION 6A OF CITIZENSHIP ACT AS A VALID LAW.

A Constitution bench of the Honourable Supreme Court of India on yesterday upheld the constitutionality of section 6A of the citizenship Act, 1955 which permits immigrants from Bangladesh residing in Assam to secure Indian citizenship. The Court held it as a valid law. Section 6A which traces its roots to the political solution of Assam Accord of 1985 mandates the immigrants who entered Assam from the Bangladesh prior to january 1,1966 would be deemed to be Indian citizens, those who entered the state between january 1,1966 and March 25 , 1971would be conferred citizenship based on the fulfilment of specific procedures and conditions. The section, however barred citizenship to those who entered Assam after March 25, 1971.Where in the honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India has stated that section 6A was included with the objective of reducing the influx of migrants and the Assam Accord was a political solution of the problem to the issue of growing migration and the section 6A was a legislative solution.