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India's apex court reviewed several pleas requesting the Centre to suspend the enforcement of the CAA Rules, which were originally announced in 2019. These applications have sought a stay on the Rules till the apex court disposes of the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that he needed four weeks to file a reply to the 20 applications; the Supreme Court asked him to file a response by April 8.
"It (CAA) does not take away citizenship of any person," Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
Among the parties that lodged these pleas are Telangana-based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Kerala's Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The Kerala government has also filed a petition in the apex court against the CAA's implementation.
A petition from AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi sought directions to the central government not to entertain or process the applications seeking grant of citizenship status under Section 6B of the Citizenship Act, 1955 (as it stands amended by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019) during the pendency of the proceedings.
The apex court did not pass an order to stay the law and will hear the matter next on April 9.
The Chief Ministers of Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have announced that the CAA will not be implemented in their respective states.
The Union Home Ministry notified the rules for implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on March 11.
The CAA rules, introduced by the Narendra Modi government and passed by Parliament in 2019, aim to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants - including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians - who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.
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