Supreme Court requests the Center’s response to requests for the CAA rules to be stayed.
The next hearing date is set for April 9th, after the Supreme Court on Tuesday requested the Narendra Modi government’s response to numerous petitions requesting a stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) regulations.
A stay of the citizenship grant was requested by some petitioners, but it has not been approved as of yet.
At the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the government, informed the bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud that he would require some time to address the twenty applications that have requested a stay on the Rules until the Supreme Court decides on the petitions that question the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019’s constitutional validity.
It (CAA) does not take away the citizenship of any person,” Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices J. B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, PTI reported.
On March 11, the Center notified the CAA rules four years after the law was passed by Parliament. The CAA seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants who have been persecuted and who arrived in India before December 31, 2014, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians.
The CAA has been criticized by a number of opposition parties, who labeled it “anti-constitutional,” “communal,” and discriminatory.
However, the Modi administration insists that CAA will not result in anyone losing their citizenship. Union Home Minister Amit Shah had told ANI, “I have spoken on CAA at least 41 times on different platforms and spoken on it in detail that the minorities of the country need not be afraid because it has no provision to take back the rights of any citizen.”
The CAA intends to end the suffering of persecuted non-Muslim migrants, such as Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, who came to India before December 31, 2014, and includes these groups’ citizenship. The minister had further stated that this law would provide these migrants with Indian citizenship.
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