Rights of citizenship of certain persons who have migrated to India from Pakistan
included in editionWhat does this mean?
This sets citizenship conditions at commencement for certain people who migrated from Pakistan to India. The conditions differ with the migration date and include registration requirements in specified cases.
The citizenship settlement when the Constitution began, alongside Parliament's power to make later citizenship law.
Why is this provision here?
Partition-related migration required specific citizenship rules rather than treating every migrant situation as identical.
This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason.
The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.
Limits, exceptions & reading carefully
Educational summary of the linked source text. Exceptions, provisos, implementing laws and applicable judgments must be read before applying it to a real case.
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Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.