CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT

AUTHORS – DEVANSHI SINGH & DR AXITA SHRIVASTAVA,

STUDENT¹ & ASSISTANT PROFESSOR² AT AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AMITY UNIVERSITY, UTTAR PRADESH LUCKNOW CAMPUS

BEST CITATION – DEVANSHI SINGH & DR AXITA SHRIVASTAVA, CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (1) OF 2024, PG. 363-366, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

Abstract

India’s Parliament enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019. Thanks to this act, non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan can now become citizens of India more swiftly. Soon after the CAA was approved, there were widespread protests throughout India, and the government responded by harshly suppressing the demonstrators. There are worries that this law and the projected national register of citizens, which would disenfranchise a large number of Indian Muslims, are attempts to create a religious test for Indian citizenship. An outline of the CAA and the reasons it represents a significant deterioration in religious freedom in India are given in this brief.

Keywords.    Demonstrators, Disenfranchised , Overseas citizens,Migrants ,Naturalisation