KOZHIKODE: The anti-CAA Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has filed a petition at the Supreme Court, seeking a stay within the Union home ministry arrangement prohibiting officials from 13 districts over five nations to grant citizenship for non-Muslim spiritual minorities in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh under the Citizenship Act, 1955.
IUML, that had previously challenged the 2019 citizenship legislation at the apex court, also called the current arrangement an effort by Centre to apply its own”mala fide designs clubbed under CAA”.
The Centre is to frame the principles for execution of the new laws.
The home ministry May 28 order enables authorities from Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab to give citizenship into non-Muslim minorities in the 3 nations living in the given 13 districts.
Based on IUML’s request, the 1955 Act provides for citizenship by naturalisation in the instance of any individual besides an illegal immigrant.
“Moreover, the arrangement doesn’t withstand the test of Article 14 (of the Constitution) as far as it treats individuals within a specific course i.e.
persons eligible to make an application for citizenship by registration and naturalization unequally by virtue of the religionit nations.
IUML’s plea also cites it had filed a writ petition against CAA to be violative of articles 14, 15 and 21 along with the simple construction of the Constitution by discriminating against individuals on the grounds of the religion and faith.
If this case was being noticed, the Centre had filed at the apex court that remaining the Act wasn’t necessary because the principles of CAA had not been framed.
IUML’s request has been drawn up by urge Haris Beeran and registered by fellow urge Pallavi Pratap.