Kolkata, May 11 -- Sohini Roy, the widow of West Bengal resident Bitan Adhikary-one of the 26 tourists killed in the Pahalgam terror attack -has been granted Indian citizenship by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, putting an end to the longstanding controversy over claims that she was originally a Bangladeshi citizen.
The citizenship controversy surrounding Sohini Roy surfaced after Bitan's family members alleged that she was originally a Bangladeshi national who had been living in India illegally following her marriage to Bitan.
Bitan, a software engineer based in California, USA, lived there with Sohini and their son. The family had come to India on vacation and was visiting Jammu and Kashmir when Bitan was tragically killed in the te...