Highlights:
Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024
The law does not deprive anyone of citizenship nor does it grant citizenship to anyone.
It merely modifies the category of people who can apply (for citizenship).
It does this by exempting the applicants from the definition of “illegal migrant" – any person who belongs to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community and is from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who has entered India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014, and who has been exempted by the Central Government or the Foreigners Act, under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920, or the provisions of 1946 or under any rule.
