Explainer on why passport, Aadhaar, voter ID and PAN do not prove Indian citizenship, and what legal records actually establish nationality under Indian law.

The statement appears counter-intuitive because the Passports Act, 1967, the law governing passports, proceeds on the premise that holder is an Indian citizen. | India News

A statement by the Ministry of External Affairs, in the middle of the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls, has generated confusion and anxiety.