The Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 19, posted pleas seeking a stay on Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 for hearing on April 9. The top court asked the Centre to file a response within three weeks on applications seeking stay on CAA.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing 237 pending petitions against the CAA and in those four interim applications have been filed seeking a stay on the implementation of the rules.
The Centre has refused to undertake that no citizenship will be granted while the court is hearing the case. The petitioners argued that rule was notified after four years of passing the law and claimed that no harm will be caused by pausing implementation.
"It (CAA) does not take away citizenship of any person," Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court.
With the unveiling of the rules on March 11, days ahead of the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, the Modi government kicked off the process of granting Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants -- Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians -- from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The rules came into force with immediate effect, according to a gazette notification.
First Published: Mar 19, 2024 2:52 PM IST
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