Silchar, Dec 13: Two persons, including a woman, were granted Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Assam’s Cachar district on Friday, two days after the Act marked its sixth anniversary.

The beneficiaries have been identified as a 40-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man. The woman had entered India from Bangladesh in 2007 and later settled in Assam’s Sribhumi district, while the man had entered India in 1975 from Bangladesh’s Moulvibazar district and has been residing in Silchar.

Confirming the development, senior advocate Dharmananda Deb, a former member of the Foreigners’ Tribunal, told The Assam Tribune on Saturday that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs issued the citizenship certificates on December 12.

The approvals take effect retrospectively from

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