## CONSTITUTION 7

### CONSTITUTION 7 — Rights of citizenship of certain migrants to Pakistan
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/constitution/7

> 7. Rights of citizenship of certain migrants to Pakistan.-
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:

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THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part II.-Citizenship)
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.