SC to hear pleas against CAA on 12th

The Supreme Court will, on September 12, hear a clutch of petitions challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. A Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, will decide on over 200 petitions challenging the CAA. The petitions had come up for hearing for the first time in the top court in December 2019.

Refusing to stay the Act, the SC had issued notices to the petitions in January 2020 and the last hearing was in June last year. In response to the petitions challenging the Act, the Centre had argued that the CAA was a "benign legislation" which has a narrow purpose and ought not be conflated beyond the legislative intent.