The constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act has been upheld by the Supreme Court by a majority verdict of 4:1.
This section is related to the grant of Indian citizenship to immigrants in Assam.
Supreme Court held that Parliament had the legislative competence to enact the provision.
The five-judge Constitution bench said that Assam Accord was a political solution to the problem of illegal migration.
The five-judge Constitution bench was headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud.
In 1985, the section 6A was inserted after the Assam Accord.
It established a specific rule for Assam that declared people of Indian descent who arrived from Bangladesh before January 1, 1966, to be Indian citizens on that day.
