India, May 10 -- Kolkata resident Soheni Adhikary, whose husband was among the 26 victims of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, has been issued an Indian citizenship certificate under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by the Centre, Sukanta Majumdar, Union minister of state and president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Bengal unit, said on Saturday.

The certificate, a copy of which was seen by HT, was issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday when the Indo-Pak conflict was on. It stated that Soheni Roy was born at Fatulla, Narayanganj in Bangladesh in 1989 and she entered India in 1997.

She adopted the surname of Bitan Adhikary, who was one of the three victims from Bengal, after marriage.

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