Constitution of India · Part II: Citizenship
Article 7: Rights of citizenship of certain migrants to Pakistan
In plain words
A person who migrated from India to what is now Pakistan after the first day of March, 1947 is not treated as a citizen of India, unless they returned under a permit for resettlement or permanent return.
A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.
Official text
Notwithstanding anything in articles 5 and 6, a person who has after the first day of March, 1947, migrated from the territory of India to the territory now included in Pakistan shall not be deemed to be a citizen of India:
Provided that nothing in this article shall apply to a person who, after having so migrated to the territory now included in Pakistan, has returned to the territory of India under a permit for resettlement or permanent return issued by or under the authority of any law and every such person shall for the purposes of clause (b) of article 6 be deemed to have migrated to the territory of India after the nineteenth day of July, 1948.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the official text of the Constitution of India. As amended up to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023. Text as on 10 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the article 7
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Divyangnakumari Harisinh Parmar (Dead) and Others v. Union of India and Others
The following issues arise for determination in the instant appeals: (i) What is the true nature of the rights in the land granted to the Appellants; (ii) Whether the High Court was justified in interfering with and…
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Union of India v. Pranav Srinivasan
The issue involved in the instant cases concerns the grant of Indian citizenship to the respondent.
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IN RE : SECTION 6A OF THE CITIZENSHIP ACT 1955 versus
Issue arose as regards the constitutional validity of s.6A of the Citizenship Act; does s.6A offend preambular values like fraternity; s.6A, if ultra vires Part II of the Constitution; does s.6A create an unreasonable…
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- Centre for Pil & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr.
- Rameshwar Prasad and Ors. v. Union of India and Anr.
- Reference Under Article 317(1) of the Constitution of India, for Inquiry and Report on the Charges Leveled Against Dr. H.B. Mirdha,Chairman Orissa Psc v. .
- M/S. Zee Tele Films Ltd. and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- Balaji Raghavan S.P. Anand v. Union of India
- Lal Babu Hussein and Ors. v. Electoral Registration Officer and Ors.
- Srinivasa Theatre and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- Union of India and Another v. Tulsiram Patel and Others
- H. Anraj and Others Etc. v. State of Maharashtra
- State of Rajasthan & Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Union of India Etc. Etc.
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- His Holiness Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalavaru v. State of Kerala
- State of Assam v. Jilkadar Ali
- Union of India v. Jyoti Prakash Mitter
- Kulathil Mammu v. The State of Kerala
- R.P. Kapur v. Union of India and Anr.
- Commissioner of Income-Tax, Punjab v. Indian Woollen Textile Mills
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. & Others v. The Commercial Tax Officer, Visakha- Patnam and Others
- State of Madhya Pradesh v. Peer Mohd. & Another
- Hazarl Lal v. State of Bihar
- Izhar Ahmad Khan v. Union of India
- Akbar Khan Alam Khan and Another v. The Union of India and Others
- State of Andhra Pradesh v. Abdul Khader
- Mobarik Ali Ahmed v. The State of Bombay
- State of Madras and Another v. K.M.Rajagopalan
- The State of Bihar v. Kumar Amar Singh and Others