Delay in CAA Implementation Leaves Hindu and Sikh Refugees in India Disconsolate
Having fled religious persecution in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the refugees who were promised permanent citizenship of India face bureaucratic harassment every year when they extend their visas.
Saran Singh, who fled from Peshawar in 1999 with his family, says he applied for permanent citizenship 10 times in the past 22 years but is awaiting for it.
Rights08/Jan/2021
Chandigarh: Torn between his identity and his livelihood, 48-year-old Sardar Singh, who had fled Afghanistan in 1992 in the wake of attacks on the local Sikh community, died as a refugee in Amritsar in 2015.