Through ANI
NEW DELHI: The Superb Court docket is scheduled to listen to a batch of petitions difficult the Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019 on September 12.
A bench of Leader Justice of India UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat will pay attention a minimum of 220 petitions difficult the CAA. The pleas towards the CAA first got here up for listening to within the Superb Court docket on December 18, 2019. It used to be closing heard on June 15, 2021.
CAA used to be handed by means of the Parliament on December 11, 2019, and then it met with protests all around the nation. The CAA got here into impact on January 10, 2020.
A Kerala-based political birthday party Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Congress chief and previous Union minister Jairam Ramesh, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress chief Debabrata Saikia, NGOs Rihai Manch and Voters Towards Hate, Assam Advocates Affiliation, and regulation scholars are a number of amongst others who had filed the plea earlier than the highest court docket difficult the Act.
In 2020, the Kerala govt additionally filed a go well with within the apex court docket changing into the primary state to problem the CAA.
The regulation fast-tracks the method of granting citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled non secular persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and took shelter in India on or earlier than December 31, 2014.
The highest court docket had previous issued realize to the Centre and refused to go an meantime order staying the regulation with out listening to the Centre.
In March 2020, the Centre filed its affidavit earlier than the apex court docket announcing that the CAA Act is a “benign piece of regulation” which doesn’t impact the “prison, democratic or secular rights” of any of the Indian Voters.
The CAA does now not violate any elementary proper, the Centre had stated whilst terming the regulation prison and saying that there used to be no query of it violating constitutional morality.
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The petitions contended that the Act, which liberalises and fast-tracks the grant of citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, promotes religion-based discrimination.
The amendments have additionally been challenged on a number of different grounds, together with the violation of secularism, Articles 21 (proper to lifestyles), 15 (prohibition of discrimination on grounds of faith, race, caste, intercourse or hometown) and 19 (proper to freedom), in addition to the provisions on citizenship and constitutional morality.
The plea filed by means of Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has stated that the Act is a “brazen assault” on core elementary rights envisaged beneath the Charter and treats “equals as unequal”.
The 2019 Act amended the Citizenship Act, 1955, which makes unlawful migrants eligible for citizenship in the event that they (a) belong to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian communities, and (b) are from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan.
It is just acceptable to migrants who entered India on or earlier than December 31, 2014. As in line with the modification, sure spaces within the Northeast are exempted from the availability.
NEW DELHI: The Superb Court docket is scheduled to listen to a batch of petitions difficult the Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019 on September 12.
A bench of Leader Justice of India UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat will pay attention a minimum of 220 petitions difficult the CAA. The pleas towards the CAA first got here up for listening to within the Superb Court docket on December 18, 2019. It used to be closing heard on June 15, 2021.
CAA used to be handed by means of the Parliament on December 11, 2019, and then it met with protests all around the nation. The CAA got here into impact on January 10, 2020.
A Kerala-based political birthday party Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Congress chief and previous Union minister Jairam Ramesh, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress chief Debabrata Saikia, NGOs Rihai Manch and Voters Towards Hate, Assam Advocates Affiliation, and regulation scholars are a number of amongst others who had filed the plea earlier than the highest court docket difficult the Act.
In 2020, the Kerala govt additionally filed a go well with within the apex court docket changing into the primary state to problem the CAA.
The regulation fast-tracks the method of granting citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled non secular persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and took shelter in India on or earlier than December 31, 2014.
The highest court docket had previous issued realize to the Centre and refused to go an meantime order staying the regulation with out listening to the Centre.
In March 2020, the Centre filed its affidavit earlier than the apex court docket announcing that the CAA Act is a “benign piece of regulation” which doesn’t impact the “prison, democratic or secular rights” of any of the Indian Voters.
The CAA does now not violate any elementary proper, the Centre had stated whilst terming the regulation prison and saying that there used to be no query of it violating constitutional morality.
ALSO READ| ‘Twin citizenship now not approved beneath CAA’: Modi govt to Lok Sabha
The petitions contended that the Act, which liberalises and fast-tracks the grant of citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, promotes religion-based discrimination.
The amendments have additionally been challenged on a number of different grounds, together with the violation of secularism, Articles 21 (proper to lifestyles), 15 (prohibition of discrimination on grounds of faith, race, caste, intercourse or hometown) and 19 (proper to freedom), in addition to the provisions on citizenship and constitutional morality.
The plea filed by means of Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has stated that the Act is a “brazen assault” on core elementary rights envisaged beneath the Charter and treats “equals as unequal”.
The 2019 Act amended the Citizenship Act, 1955, which makes unlawful migrants eligible for citizenship in the event that they (a) belong to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian communities, and (b) are from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan.
It is just acceptable to migrants who entered India on or earlier than December 31, 2014. As in line with the modification, sure spaces within the Northeast are exempted from the availability.
