Key Points
The Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024 require the applicants to mandatorily submit three sets of documents under Schedule 1A, Schedule 1B and Schedule 1C for claiming Indian citizenship.Except fortheeligibility certificate fromanunspecified locally reputed community institution under Schedule 1C(which can also be acquired after paying bribes),prospective applicants are unlikely to be able to meet the required criteria under Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B...
Applicants can also furnish their PAN Card or any other document issued by the central or state government, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), banks or a public authority.. Applicants can also produce acertificate issued by an elected member of any rural or urban bodyora revenue officer;bank account details;insurance policies;electricity connection papers;electricity bills, orcourt ortribunalrecords.They can also furnish theirEmployees Provident Fund/General Provident Fund/ Pension/Employees State Insurance Corporation documents,educational certificates, trade licencesor marriage certificates.Anyone inpossession of these documentscan claim to be anIndian citizen unless proved otherwise..
Thedirector oftheIntelligence BureauDineshwar Sharmahad in facttoldthis to theJoint Parliamentary Committee ontheCitizenship Amendment Bill 2016.Those claiming religious persecution,he said,will have to prove that they came to India due to religious persecution..
In post-Partition India, minority refugees from Pakistan were issued migration/rehabilitation certificatesthat documented their entry into India.However, the non-Muslim religious minorities from these three Muslim-majority countries who entered Indiaon or before 31December 2014were notprovided withany such migration/rehabilitation certificates.The.
TheJoint Parliamentary Committee on Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016was informed by the Intelligence Bureau that 31,313 persons belonging to minority communities (Hindus 25,447;Sikhs 5,807;Christians 55;Buddhists two;Parsis two)were provided with long-term visas based onclaims of religious persecution in their respective countries...
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