4.3. Deprivation of Citizenship (Section 10)

The Government of India can deprive any citizen of Indian Citizenship if it is satisfied that:

♤ The citizen has obtained citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of any material fact; or

♤ That citizen has shown himself by act or speech to be disloyal or disaffected towards the Constitution of India as by law established; or

♤ That citizen has, during the war in which India may be engaged, unlawfully traded or communicated with an enemy or been engaged in or associated with, any business that was to his knowledge carried on in such manner as to assist any enemy in that war;

♤ That citizen has, within five years after registration or naturalization, been sentenced in any country to imprisonment for a term of not less than two years; or

♤ That citizen has been ordinarily resident out of India for a continuous period of seven years. However, this will not apply, if he has been at any time a student of any educational institution in a country outside India or in the service of a Government of India or of an

International organization of which India is a member, or has registered annually in the prescribed manner at an Indian consulate his intention to retain his citizenship of India.

The Central Government shall not deprive a person of citizenship unless it is satisfied that it is not conducive to the public good that person should continue to be a citizen of India.