High Court’s decision on Indian citizenship of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Central Government to consider the application for Indian citizenship of a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee ‘Mathin’. Mathin was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1975. Her parents were Tamils of Indian origin. In Sri Lanka, she was kept in a refugee camp and was not given Sri Lankan citizenship. When the civil war broke…