India after the 1 (2023) 6 SCC 161 2 (2023) 4 SCC 541 Civil Appeal No.5932 of 2023, etc. Page 5 of 2515th day of August 1947,” occurring in Explanation-2 to Section 5 of the 1955 Act. Therefore, it includes all those territories which were part of the undivided India and continued to be a part of the independent India. He submitted that if the interpretation put to the said provision by the Union of India is accepted, persons whose parents were born in the States like Goa and Sikkim would be the persons of Indian origin but who are born in the territories which continued to be a part of India after independence, would be denied the same benefit. Therefore, a person of Indian origin can acquire Indian citizenship if it is shown that the grandparents were born in the undivided India and the parents were born in India after its independence. 9. He submitted that the words “minor child”, occurring in Section 8(2) of the 1955 Act, will include an unborn child or a child in the womb. He