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The Supreme Court Tuesday is set to hear petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and the CAA Rules notified on March 12, 2024. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud will be presiding over 237 petitions, along with the ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday hit out at the Opposition for indulging in “politics of lies” over the the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, saying that there’s no question of “timing” in Centre notifying the rules for the implementation shortly before the Lok Sabha elections. “The BJP said in ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, was enacted in 1985 on humanitarian grounds after the liberation of Bangladesh and is deeply embedded in India’s history. The provision cannot be equated with the amnesty granted to “illegal immigrants”, Bar and Bench quoted ...

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre how many people obtained citizenship of the country availing Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which was introduced in the statute following the signing of Assam accord. “How many people took citizenship in pursuance of this provision when Section 6A was ...

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday once again asserted that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) is a law of the country and no one can stop its implementation. He accused West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee of opposing CAA due to vote-bank politics."Mamata Banerjee has not ...

The rules of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will be formulated by the end of March 2024, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra said on Sunday, The Hindu reported.He made the statement while addressing a gathering of the Matua community at Thakurnagar in West Bengal’s North ...

Representational image only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned a scheduled Constitution Bench hearing on a series of petitions challenging the constitutionality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, to December 5.Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud postponed the hearing, fixed on November ...

The Supreme Court will begin hearing from October 17 a set of petitions challenging the constitutionality of a provision of the 1955 Citizenship Act that allows migrants from East Pakistan, who entered India between January 1, 1966, and March 25, 1971, and have been living in Assam, to register ...

A view of the Supreme Court of India. File | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR A Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Wednesday decided to hear from October 17 a series of petitions challenging the constitutionality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955.Section ...

The Gauhati High Court has dismissed the Centre’s petition against the bail order of Assam peasants’ rights activist Akhil Gogoi, PTI reported on Wednesday. Gogoi was granted bail by a special National Investigation Agency court on October 1 in a case related to the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in ...