Section 6A, which was incorporated in the Citizenship Act 1955 following the signing of the 1985 Assam Accord, was upheld by the Supreme Court.

In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955.

The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of section 6A of The Citizenship Act, 1955, that confers citizenship on a specific class of migrants from Bangladesh to Assam. A five-judge bench that delivered this judgement was led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.

The Supreme Court's constitutional bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, upheld the legality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act. This section grants Indian citizenship to illegal immigrants in Assam.

Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, in a separate opinion backing Justice Kant, said Section 6A was Parliament’s balancing act between its humanitarian view towards immigrants from Bangladesh and the impact of the huge influx on Assam’s economic and cultural resources.

By a 4:1 majority verdict, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of granting Indian citizenship to immigrants into Assam up to a certain date

The petitioners claimed that setting a different cut-off date for citizenship in Assam is “discriminatory, arbitrary and illegal”.

In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act which grants Indian citi