The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Wednesday a batch of pleas seeking to examine the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The SC bench, which had issued a notice to the Centre on December 18 on pleas, will hear a batch of 143 petitions, including those filed by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.
Whatever Happened In SC Till Now:
11.09 am: SC has said it will not grant any stay on the new citizenship law without hearing the Centre.
11.08 am: Centre says it wants time to respond to pleas which have not been served on it.
11.07 am: Senior advocate Kapil Sibal urges SC to put on hold operation of CAA and postpone the exercise of NPR for the time being
10.53 am: Other petitioners include Muslim body Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, All Assam Students Union (AASU), Peace Party, CPI, NGOs 'Rihai Manch' and Citizens Against Hate, advocate M L Sharma, and law students.
10.51 am: Petitions have also been filed by RJD leader Manoj Jha, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi.
10.44 am: The plea filed by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, said the Act is a "brazen attack" on core fundamental rights envisaged under the Constitution and treats "equals as unequal".
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10.40 am: Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) said in its plea that CAA violates the fundamental Right to Equality and intends to grant citizenship to a section of illegal immigrants by making an exclusion on the basis of religion.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, which had issued notice to the Centre on December 18 on various petitions, is likely to hear a batch of 143 petitions, including those filed by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.
President Ram Nath Kovind gave assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on December 12, turning it into an Act.