India’s Supreme Court today said it would hear on March 19 petitions seeking a stay on the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 till the pendency of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the law before the apex court.
Some of India’s biggest companies, including Vedanta Ltd VDAN.NS, Bharti Airtel BRTI.NS, RPSG Group and Essel Mining were among the country’s top political funders over the last five years under a now-scrapped opaque political funding system, official data showed on Thursday.
The information was made public by the Election Commission of India following an order on Monday from the country’s top court, just days before a national election is due to be called.
The rules for implementing CAA were notified on March 12, more than four years after the law was passed by Indian parliament.
Under CAA, “persecuted” Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains who entered India from three of its neighbouring countries till 2014 are eligible to get citizenship.
“We will hear this on Tuesday. There are 190 plus cases. All of them will be heard,” justice Chandrachud said.
The CAA gives citizenship to members of six “persecuted” religious minority communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who shifted to India till December 31, 2014 but keeps out Muslims from those countries.
India’s Supreme Court today said it would hear on March 19 petitions seeking a stay on the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 till the pendency of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the law before the apex court.
