The Supreme Court will hear a batch of petitions on Tuesday seeking a stay on the implementation of the rules under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 till the pendency of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Act by the top court.
The Centre had notified the rules of the Act last week on March 11 after which the Indian Union Muslim League moved the apex court seeking a stay on the continued operations of the impugned provisions of the Act.
In its plea, the IUML stated that the Act and Rules would result in valuable rights being created and citizenship being granted to persons belonging to only certain religions, thereby resulting in a “fait accompli situation”, during the pendency of the present Writ Petition.
On Friday, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra agreed to hear the pleas seeking a stay on the implementation of the Act.
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The bench also took note of senior advocate Kapil Sibal's submission who appeared for the IUML saying that once citizenship is granted to migrant Hindus, it cannot be taken back, and hence the issue needed an early hearing, as per a PTI report.
“We will hear this on Tuesday. There are 190 plus cases. All of them will be heard. We will place a full batch with the IAs (Interim applications),” the CJI said, the PTI report added.
Appearing for the Centre, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that there were 237 petitions and four interim applications that have been filed against the implementation of the rules of the Act.
Under the CAA, the Modi government would confer Indian citizenship to non-Muslim persecuted minorities — Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Parsis, and Buddhists —from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who crossed the border to India before December 31, 2014.