Sections of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka have legal options to acquire Indian passports. Getting Indian passport is as good as getting Indian citizenship, though citizenship falls within the exclusive executive domain of the Central government.
Articulating this point, specialists refer to two instances wherein the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court came to the rescue of two refugees — K. Nalini, a resident of Kottapattu camp in Tiruchi; and Neyatitus of Nattarasankottai in Sivaganga district — in getting passports issued to them on the ground that both were Indian citizens.
