Madras HC Directs Centre, TN Govt to Treat Sri Lankan Repatriate as Indian Citizen

A bench of Justice GR Swaminathan observed that as per the agreements between India and Sri Lanka, in 1974, India was obliged to repatriate not less than six lakh persons of Indian origin from Sri Lanka and grant them citizenship​, however, as on date, citizenship has been conferred only on 4,61,639 Indian-origin Tamils (IOT)

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