The Indian Union Muslim League has approached the Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act notification issued by the Centre on Monday. The party has sought a stay against the notification.
The League has filed an interlocutory application in the pending writ petition and has sought an immediate stay of the implementation of the CAA, LiveLaw reported. In the petition, the party sought a stay saying the CAA links citizenship with religion and it is prima facie unconstitutional.
“Since the CAA discriminates on the basis of religion, it strikes at the root of the concept of secularism, which is the basic structure of the Constitution. Therefore, one way of looking at the implementation of the act would be to make it religion neutral and give citizenship to all migrants irrespective of their religious status," IUML said in its plea, LiveLaw reported.
The Union Home Ministry (MHA) on Monday notified the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules, days ahead of the expected announcement of the Lok Sabha elections schedule.
The CAA, enacted by the Narendra Modi government in 2019, seeks to grant citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim immigrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who entered India before December 31, 2014.
The MHA has readied a portal for the convenience of the applicants as the entire process will be online. The applicants will have to declare the year when they entered India without travel documents.
