The Supreme Court is scheduled to listen to over 200 PILs on Monday, together with a slew of petitions difficult the constitutional validity of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
A bench headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit is scheduled to listen to petitions difficult the validity of the CAA, the enactment of which triggered widespread protests throughout the nation.
According to the checklist of companies uploaded on the apex court docket’s web site, a bench of Chief Justice and Justice S Ravindra Bhat has posted 220 petitions for listening to, together with the foremost petition of the Indian Union of Muslim League towards the CAA.
The apex court docket may even hear a number of PILs pending for a number of years.
The CJI-led bench can also be scheduled to listen to a number of different PILs, together with a petition filed by an organisation, We the Women of India, in search of to offer efficient authorized assist to the affected ladies from home violence throughout the nation. Creating satisfactory infrastructure is roofed beneath the Conservation Act. ladies.
The petition mentioned that regardless of the legislation being enacted greater than 15 years in the past, home violence stays the most typical crime towards ladies in India.
Hearing a batch of petitions on December 18, 2019, the apex court docket had refused to remain the operation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), however issued a discover to the Centre.
The amended legislation seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain and Parsi communities who entered the nation from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan on or earlier than December 31, 2014.
The high court docket had issued a discover to the Center in search of its reply by the second week of January 2020.
However, because of the COVID-19-induced restrictions, the matter couldn’t come up for full listening to because it concerned numerous attorneys and litigants.
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), one of many petitioners difficult the CAA, mentioned the Act violates the basic proper to equality and intends to grant citizenship to a bit of unlawful migrants by boycotting them on the premise of faith.
The petition, filed by IUML by means of advocate Pallavi Pratap, has sought an interim keep on the operation of the legislation.
The petition, filed by Congress chief Jairam Ramesh, mentioned the Act is a “merciless attack” on the essential basic rights envisaged beneath the Constitution and considers “equal to unequal”.
“The impugned Act makes two classifications, viz., classification on the premise of faith and classification on the premise of geography, and each the classifications are wholly unreasonable and don’t share any rational relation to the article of the impugned Act, i.e., offering shelter, safety. and citizenship to these communities who’re going through persecution on grounds of faith of their nation of origin,” the petition mentioned.
Several different petitions have been filed difficult the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, together with these of RJD chief Manoj Jha, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi.
Other petitioners embrace Muslim physique Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, All Assam Students Union (AASU), Peace Party, CPI, NGO ‘Rhai Manch’ and Citizen Against Hate, advocate ML Sharma and legislation college students who’ve additionally approached the apex court docket. . Challenging the Act.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
