The Meghalaya High Court has asked the Centre to bring in a law to let people of religious and ethnic minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan to be given citizenship without any cut-off year or any questions asked.
While delivering the verdict, Justice S.R. Sen said,“Pakistan declared itself an Islamic country and India, since it was divided on the basis of religion, should have also been declared a Hindu country but it remained a secular country."
Justice Sen also clarified that he was not “against my Muslim brothers and sisters residing in India for generations and abiding (by) India laws”. The judge said that nobody should try to make India another Islamic country, “otherwise it will be a doomsday for India and the world”.
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