Supreme Court to Hear Pleas Seeking Stay on CAA Rules on March 19

On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to consider arguments for a stay of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 until March 19. The subject was brought up by senior lawyer Kapil Sibal before Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, who stated that the case would be scheduled for next week. More than two hundred pertinent petitions challenging significant CAA provisions have been filed with the Supreme Court since 2019. For non-Muslim immigrants who arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014, and fled religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Afghanistan, the bill seeks to expedite the naturalization process.

The Union administration only published the regulations for the CAA on Monday, even though the Parliament ratified it in December 2019. Opposition leaders criticized the Act’s announcement, arguing that the regulations were “unconstitutional,” “discriminatory,” and against the “secular principle of citizenship” that the Constitution upholds. Additionally, opponents of the CAA said that the law violates the secular values contained in the Indian Constitution by excluding Muslims from its jurisdiction and tying citizenship to religious identity.

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On the other hand, the Center has insisted that no national will lose their citizenship and that the CAA is about granting citizenship. Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared on Thursday that the BJP-led government will never compromise on the CAA and that it will never be retracted interview news agency The top BJP official said, “We will never compromise on our sovereign right to ensure Indian citizenship in our country, and CAA will never be taken back,” during an interview. “The opposition has nowhere else to work. Their history is behaving one way and saying another. The histories of the BJP and Prime Minister Modi, however, are different. It is irreversible anything the BJP or PM Modi say. All of Modi’s promises have been kept.”