New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- The US Government panel on religious freedom has slammed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), inviting strong protest from India.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said the CAB is a dangerous turn in the wrong direction and asked the US administration to consider imposing sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah and other principal Indian leadership if the Bill with the "religious criterion" is enacted into a law.

The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan federal Government entity established by the US Congress to analyse and report on threats to religious freedom abroad. The USCIRF on its website says it makes foreign policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and ...