Final hearing on challenge to CAA in SC from May 5

New Delhi: More than six years aft its enactment sparked riots successful Delhi, the Supreme Court connected Thursday scheduled a four-day last proceeding from May 5 connected 243 petitions challenging the validity of Citizenship (Amendment) Act that provides a pathway for citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christians who whitethorn scope India aft fleeing spiritual persecution successful Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.A seat of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said the petitioners, that see Muslim organisations among which Indian Union of Muslim League has been termed the pb petitioner, and functionaries from Congress, TMC and AIMIM, would reason their arguments wrong 1 and fractional days and the Centre would respond successful a akin clip frame. May 12 has been kept for rejoinders to beryllium filed by petitioners.On Dec 18, 2019, a three-judge bench, which included Justice Kant, had issued announcement to the Centre connected the petitions challenging CAA connected the crushed of favoritism against Muslims who came to India from neighbouring countries but were not entitled to citizenship nether CAA.Protesters, chiefly Muslim women supported by governmental parties, had blocked a large arterial roadworthy successful Shaheen Bagh present from Dec 15, 2019 till March 24, 2020.

Blockades were organised successful different parts of the metropolis too. The resultant hostility triggered riots successful northeast Delhi connected Feb 23, 2020 that lasted respective days and near 53 dead.SC had past heard the petitions connected March 19, 2024, the twelvemonth the Centre framed Citizenship (Amendment) Rules. The Centre had filed its effect to the petitions successful Oct 2022 and termed CAA a benign portion of authorities providing Indian citizenship to members of those communities who person been persecuted for the past 70 years successful the 3 neighbouring Islamic countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.Countering the plea that CAA discriminated against Muslims, the Centre had said, "CAA does not question to recognise oregon question to supply answers to each oregon immoderate benignant of purported persecution that whitethorn beryllium taking spot crossed the satellite oregon that whitethorn person taken spot antecedently anyplace successful the world."On Thursday, the seat agreed with solicitor wide Tushar Mehta that the situation to CAA successful narration to Assam and Tripura, wherever abstracted accords acceptable deadlines for introduction of migrants from Bangladesh, could beryllium de-linked from the ones which person questioned the instrumentality from a pan-India perspective.