“Indian Union Muslim League files plea in Supreme Court seeking stay on CAA implementation”, Opindia, March 12, 2024:
“On Tuesday (12th March), the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) filed a petition with the Supreme Court, a day after the Centre notified the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules. The party has sought a halt to the law’s implementation, calling it “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory” against the Muslim population.
The Islamist political party IUML is the principal petitioner in the Supreme Court’s writ petitions contesting the CAA. The IUML filed an interlocutory application in the current writ petition, seeking an immediate stop on the CAA’s implementation.
It contended that the conventional criterion of presumption of constitutionality of an Act does not apply when the legislation is “manifestly arbitrary.” The IUML claimed that because the Act links citizenship to religion and creates a categorization entirely based on religion, it is “prima facie unconstitutional” and should be stopped by the Supreme Court…..”
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