NEW DELHI - India announced rules on March 11 to implement a 2019 citizenship law that critics call anti-Muslim.
The Citizenship Amendment Act grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before Dec 31, 2014.“The Modi government announces implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act,” a government spokesperson said in a text message.
Muslim groups say the law, combined with a proposed national register of citizens, can discriminate against India’s 200 million Muslims – the world’s third-largest Muslim population. They fear the government might remove the citizenship of Muslims without documents in some border states. It says the law is meant to grant citizenship, not take it away from anyone, and has called the earlier protests politically motivated.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)