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On Tuesday, the Union government received notice from the Supreme Court on twenty-odd applications that sought a stay of the Citizenship Amendment Act and its rules' implementation. The government was notified on March 11, 2024. SC requests a response from the Center within a week and plans to hold a hearing on April 9, 2024.
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud's bench scheduled a follow-up hearing for April 9. In his appearance on behalf of the Center, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the bench that he would require four weeks to respond to the twenty applications. In these cases, a stay of the regulations was requested until the Supreme Court decided the petitions that contested the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019's constitutionality.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal argued on behalf of the petitioners, raising legal concerns about the regulations' notification. He claimed that the legislation required notification to be sent out within six months, but that it was sent out four years later. He stated that there were severe concerns about constitutionality.
Mehta informed the bench that CAA does not deprive somebody of their citizenship, which was also made up of Justices Manoj Misra and JB Pardiwala.
Another attorney, Indira Jaising, and Sibal insisted that citizenship should not be granted until after the next hearing and that they should be allowed to file a lawsuit if something similar occurs. Sibal remarked on giving the freedom to relocate ASAP as something like citizenship occurs. In response, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said, "We are here."
Four years after the controversial law was passed by Parliament to expedite Indian citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who arrived in India before December 31, 2014, the Center on March 11 cleared the way for the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 with the notification of the relevant rules.
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