{"id":318037,"date":"2019-12-18T04:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318037"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:06:03","slug":"supreme-court-issues-notice-to-centre-on-pleas-challenging-citizenship-law-no-stay-on-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-issues-notice-to-centre-on-pleas-challenging-citizenship-law-no-stay-on-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on pleas challenging Citizenship Law, no stay on implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court\u00a0on Wednesday issued notice to\u00a0centre\u00a0on a batch of pleas challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde and also comprising Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant refused to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court will hear the pleas in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which will grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from\u00a0Pakistan, Afghanistan\u00a0and Bangladesh, has triggered a massive outrage across the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several parts of the Country have been on a boil and witnessed\u00a0violent protests over the past few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described violent protests on the new citizenship law \u2018unfortunate and deeply distressing\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He asked people not to let what he described as vested interest groups create a divide in society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi assured Indians that CAA will not affect the citizen of India. He also underscored that the act was drafted only for those who have faced years of persecution outside and have no other place to go except India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u00a0on Wednesday issued notice to\u00a0centre\u00a0on a batch of pleas challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde and also comprising Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant refused to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Law. The top court will hear the pleas in January. The Citizenship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1760,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318040,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318037\/revisions\/318040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}