The Centre Today (March 19th) sought time from the Supreme Court to file a reply to the applications seeking a stay on the implementation of the CAA [Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024].
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NEW DELHI: The Central government requested additional time from the Supreme Court to prepare a response to the applications seeking a halt on the enforcement of CAA [The Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024].
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, informed a bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud that he required some time to address the 20 applications seeking a suspension of the Rules until the apex court resolves the petitions contesting the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Mehta emphasized,
“It (CAA) does not revoke the citizenship of any individual”
-while presenting before the bench, which also included Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
The hearing is underway.
The Centre had on March 11 paved the way for the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, with the notification of the relevant rules, four years after the contentious law was passed by Parliament to fast-track Indian citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014.
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