JAMMU: More than 2,600 foreigners, including 2063 Pakistan residents, have been granted Indian citizenship in the past four years.

Union Ministry of Home Affairs, in a reply to the RTI filed by the Jammu based activist Raman Sharma, revealed that during the period between January 1, 2017 to August 3, 2020, a total of 2,664 foreigners have been granted Indian Citizenship that includes foreign nationals from 43 countries across the world.

The data in this regard has been provided by Citizenship wing (Foreigners Division) of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India under Right to Information Act to Mr Sharma in response to his online RTI plea.