Constitutional bench upholds Section 6A of Citizenship Act, validates March 1971 cut-off for migrants from East Pakistan, ...

Section 6A originates from the “Assam Accord”, a political settlement signed on August 15, 1985, between the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government and Assam’s student groups, following a six ...

The Supreme Court verdict affirming the validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which was enacted as part of the Assam Accord, marks a significant turning point in the ongoing debate over ...

Section 6A of the Citizenship Act deals with the grant of Indian citizenship to immigrants covered by the 1985 Assam Accord, which sets March 25, 1971, as the cut-off date. Speaking to the media ...

The Government enacted the Assam Accord, so its stand in the court was that the cut-off date should be 1971. However, many people in Assam wished the cut-off date to be 1951,” he said when asked ...

On October 17, a constitution bench of India's Supreme Court, in a 4:1 majority judgment, upheld the constitutionality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955. This provision allows immigrants ...

PM Modi praises Assam's peace accords at Bodoland Mahotsav, highlighting the integration of over 10,000 youths into ...

In upholding Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, a provision introduced in 1985 to give effect to the core feature of the Assam Accord, the Supreme Court of India has helped preserve the existing ...

200 people fell sick, with 53 taken to the health care centre and 2 admitted for advanced treatment after getting food poisoning at a memorial event in Assam More than 200 people fell sick due to ...

The judgment, which confirms 1971 as the cut-off date for granting citizenship under the Assam Accord, has elicited both elation and melancholy. Sarma stated that the Assamese people will have to ...

Section 6A was added to the citizenship law in 1985 as part of the Assam Accord. The agreement was signed between the Indian government and Assamese nationalist leaders who had led a six-year-long ...

The 1971 cut-off date is linked to the Assam Accord of 1985, signed between the Rajiv Gandhi government and the All Assam Students’ Union at the end of the six-year-long bloody Assam Agitation.