Supreme Court To Hear Batch Of Pleas Today Seeking Stay On Implementation Of CAA Rules

The Supreme Court will hear a batch of petitions on Tuesday seeking a stay on the implementation of the rules under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 till the pendency of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Act by the top court.

The Centre had notified the rules of the Act last week on March 11 after which the Indian Union Muslim League moved the apex court seeking a stay on the continued operations of the impugned provisions of the Act.

In its plea, the IUML stated that the Act and Rules would result in valuable rights being created and citizenship being granted to persons belonging to only certain religions, thereby resulting in a “fait accompli situation”, during the pendency of the present Writ Petition.