{"id":318707,"date":"2020-01-09T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318707"},"modified":"2020-01-09T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:41:06","slug":"country-going-through-difficult-times-cji-bobde-on-caa-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/country-going-through-difficult-times-cji-bobde-on-caa-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Country going through difficult times: CJI Bobde on CAA plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315768 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bobte1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1.jpg 523w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-485x360.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/>The country is going through difficult times and such petitions do not help the cause, said Chief Justice SA Bobde on a petition to declare the citizenship law &#8220;constitutional&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-judge bench also comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant said they would hear the petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act once the nation-wide violence stops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere is already so much of violence,\u201d the bench said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court\u2019s observation came when an advocate, Vineet Dhanda, sought the listing of his plea asking that the CAA be declared constitutional, and also instruction from the court to all states to implement it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last Month, Parliament had cleared the law to amend the Citizenship Act that empowers the government to grant citizenship to non-Muslim minority religious groups from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Protests have taken place across the country against the new law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country is going through difficult times and such petitions do not help the cause, said Chief Justice SA Bobde on a petition to declare the citizenship law &#8220;constitutional&#8221;. The three-judge bench also comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant said they would hear the petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12262,11370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318707"}],"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=318707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318708,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318707\/revisions\/318708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}