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SC asks govt to file within 4 weeks response to pleas challenging CAA

Legislation that prompted nationwide protests was challenged on the ground that it allegedly is against the right to equality

SC to hear pleas challenging constitutional validity of CAA on Oct 31

The Supreme Court said on Monday it will hear on October 31 a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants fleeing religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who entered India on or before December 31, 2014. A bench comprising Chief Justice U U Lalit and Justice S R Bhat noted the matter will be referred to a three-judge bench. The 2019 amended law, which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain, and Parsi communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan has come in for stinging criticism by opposition parties, leaders and other entities over exclusion of Muslims. During the hearing on Monday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that several issues have been raised in the petitions filed before the top court. "Our reply is filed so far as some ...

Withdrawn 274 recovery notices against anti-CAA protestors: UP govt to SC

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant said the state will refund the entire amount worth crores of rupees, recovered from the alleged protestors due to the proceedings initiated in 2019

CAA fundamentally anti-national, targets a community, says Shashi Tharoor

Terming Citizenship (Amendment) Act 'fundamentally anti-national', Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday alleged that the act targets a particular community

Delhi riots: Advocacy against law not crime, Umar Khalid tells court

Advocacy against the law like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not a crime, former JNU student leader Umar Khalid told a Delhi court on Monday

Police use teargas to disperse anti-CAA protesters in Karnataka's Mangaluru

Hundreds of college students, cadres of the Left organisations and minority institutions staged protests and staged sit-in demo in the port city against the CAA and sought its repeal at the earliest.

CAA needed amid developments in volatile neighbourhood: Hardeep Puri

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that developments in the volatile neighbourhood are the reason why enactment of Citizenship Amendment Act is necessary

Govt seeks extension till January 9 for framing CAA rules: Minister

This is the fifth extension sought by the government for framing of these rules.

CAA, NRC nothing to do with Hindu-Muslim divide: RSS chief Bhagwat

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have nothing to do with Hindu-Muslim divide

Protesters are not terrorists

Delhi High Court raises the bar on UAPA application

Right to protest fundamental, can't call it terrorist act: Delhi HC

Grants bail to JNU student in anti-CAA protests case

Delhi riots: HC grants bail to three men accused of murder, rioting

The Delhi HC has granted bail to three men, accused of murdering a person and injuring his son during the communal violence in north east Delhi last year

Natasha Narwal surrenders at Tihar Jail after 3-week interim bail ends

JNU student Natasha Narwal surrendered at Tihar Jail on Sunday three weeks after she was granted bail to perform the last rites of her father who succumbed to COVID-19, officials said.

Wrong narratives are created to create political instability, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said lies and rumours are being spread by the opponents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to create political instability in the country

Won't allow CAA in Tamil Nadu if DMK voted to power, says M K Stalin

Protests had broken out against the contentious Act earlier in various parts of the country, including in Shaheen Bagh in Delhi

Borderline issues

Indo-Bangla bonhomie masks critical gaps

Chicago City Council votes against resolution critical of India's CAA

The Chicago City Council, one of the most powerful city councils in the US after New York, has voted against a resolution critical of India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the human rights situation

Time to frame rules under citizenship law extended by Parliament

The government has been granted time till April 9 by Lok Sabha and July 9 by Rajya Sabha to frame rules under the citizenship law

Will work on corrected NRC for Assam's protection, says BJP's JP Nadda

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday released its manifesto for Assam Assembly polls and promised to work on a corrected National Register of Citizens (NRC) for state's protection

We will implement CAA in Assam: State BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass

head of Assam Assembly elections, state BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass said that the party will soon implement Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)