Rajasthan Government Moves Supreme Court Challenging Validity Of CAA
Rajasthan is the 2d state after Kerala to transport the highest court docket invoking Article 131 of the Charter
New Delhi:
The Congress-ruled Rajasthan executive on Monday moved the Supreme Court difficult validity of the Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019, pronouncing the regulation was once violative of basic rights equivalent to proper to equality and lifestyles below the charter.
Rajasthan turned into the second one state after Kerala to transport the highest court docket invoking Article 131 of the Charter below which a state is empowered to immediately transfer the highest court docket in case of a dispute with the Centre.
The plea seeks declaration of the CAA as “ultravires to the supply of the Charter of India and be declared as void”.
The newly amended regulation seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain and Parsi communities who got here to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan on or ahead of December 31, 2014 after dealing with spiritual persecution.
