The Supreme Court has rejected the argument, which compared Section 6A of the Citizenship Act to an amnesty scheme implemented for the benefit of illegal immigrants.
The Constitution Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, Justice Surya Kant, Justice MM Sundresh, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra observed that when Section 6A was enacted, there was a different history and India had an important role to play in the Bangladesh liberation war.
The particular Section was partly introduced to remedy the atrocities committed on the population of East Bengal in the aftermath of the 1971 liberation war.
The Bench made the oral observation while hearing petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which concerns the grant of Indian citizenship to immigrants covered by the Assam accord.
The Apex Court said that Section 6A, therefore, cannot be likened to an amnesty scheme for illegal immigrants in general.
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