Citizenship Amendment Act: Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, seeks response by April 9 | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday issued discover to Union authorities on 20-odd functions searching for keep of implementation of Citizenship Modification Act and the Guidelines, which was notified on March 11, 2024. SC seeks response from Centre in three weeks and would take up listening to on April 9, 2024.
Listening to a batch of 200 petitions searching for a keep on CAA 2019, petitioners made repeated requests to remain technique of granting of citizenship to persecuted communities from Islamic states of Afghanistan, Pakistanand Bangladesh until the SC determined keep utility.

As a final resort, Indira Jaising argued that at the very least the court docket ought to keep all citizenship granted within the meantime can be topic to court docket’s determination. However the SC politely stepped across the plea saying infrastructure for grant of citizenship not but in place.

The petitions have been heard by a bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

The plea was filed by Indian Union Muslim League, that sought safety for Muslims below the Act. IUML urged the court docket to permit Muslims to use for citizenship and requested a report on their eligibility. A key challenger of CAA since 2019, argues that it institutes a biased and discriminatory citizenship-granting course of solely based mostly on non secular id, which they deem arbitrary.

One other plea by the Democratic Youth Federation of India additionally seeks a keep on the Citizenship (Modification) Guidelines, 2024.
Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, has additionally petitioned towards CAA. His petition seeks directives to halt processing of citizenship functions below Part 6B of the Citizenship Act, 1955, till the continued authorized proceedings are concluded. Owaisi’s intervention provides one other dimension to the various array of voices engaged within the authorized scrutiny of the contentious laws.

These petitions urge the court docket to instruct the Centre to droop the implementation of the foundations till it adjudicates on the constitutional validity of CAA.
Enacted by the Centre and ratified by Parliament in 2019, CAA guidelines search to grant Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who arrived in India earlier than December 31, 2014.