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Citizenship Amendment Rules: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on March 19 pleas seeking a course to the Centre to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 until the pendency of petitions difficult the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 earlier than the apex court docket.
IUML challenges CAA implementation
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) on March 12 moved to the Supreme Court and filed a plea seeking a stay on its implementation within the nation. IUML, a political celebration main the cost in opposition to the CAA in a batch of writ petitions earlier than the Supreme Court, sought a right away stay of the newly notified guidelines. It additionally demanded an pressing listening to on the matter.
In its interlocutory utility submitted inside the ongoing writ petition, IUML contended that the presumption of constitutionality usually afforded to statutes doesn’t apply when laws is deemed “manifestly arbitrary.” The petitioner argued that by linking citizenship to faith and introducing a classification based mostly solely on spiritual grounds, the Act seems “prima facie unconstitutional and discriminatory” and subsequently warrants intervention from the Supreme Court within the kind of a stay order.
Highlighting its stance additional, the petitioner emphasised that because the CAA remained unimplemented for 4.5 years, deferring its implementation till the Court’s closing resolution wouldn’t trigger any prejudice. Meanwhile, it can create an uncommon state of affairs if individuals who obtained citizenship by way of the CAA are to have their citizenship finally revoked within the occasion that the Court guidelines that the statute is unconstitutional, it added.
A separate utility has additionally been filed by the Democratic Youth Federation of India seeking a stay on the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024. The apex court docket is already seized of a batch of pleas difficult the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
What is CAA?
On Monday (March 11), the Centre carried out the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, notifying the principles 4 years after the contentious legislation was handed by Parliament. The legislation was handed to fast-track citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who got here to India earlier than December 31, 2014.
With the disclosing of the principles that got here days forward of the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, the Modi authorities will now begin granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from the three nations. The guidelines come into power with rapid impact, in accordance to a Gazette notification.
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