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Supreme Court's Refusal to Stay CAA Disappointing: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

22 Jan 2020 01:01 PM, IST


Supreme Court's Refusal to Stay CAA Disappointing: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
Mohammad Salim Engineer, Vice President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (speaking) along with Jamaat president Syed Sadatullah Hussaini and other leaders at a press conferene in New Delhi on Jan 04, 2020.

India Tomorrow

 

NEW DELHI, JANUARY 22— Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, one of the largest socio-religious Muslim organizations in India, has termed as “disappointing” the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

 

A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna on Wednesday refused to stay the implementation of CAA and gave four weeks time to the central government to file its response to all 140 petitions filed in the top court challenging the CAA. The centre submitted its response to only 60 petitions.

 

“We had expected that the Supreme Court would come forward for help of the people and stay the CAA because it is the responsibility of the Supreme Court to fix the error committed by the Parliament. Supreme Court’s refusal today to stay the implementation of CAA has disappointed us,” said Mohammad Salim Engineer, Vice President of Jamaat.

 

He said the past one month was enough time for the centre to respond to all petitions and the SC should have given its final verdict today.

 

On December 18, the top court had issued notice on various petitions challenging CAA and asked the Union Government to file the response by the second week of January.

 

“The past one month was enough for the centre to respond to the petitions against CAA. The court could have taken response from it in that period and today full and final decision should have been given by the top court. This delay has disappointed and this has delayed the justice for the people of India. We hope the SC would soon take action on it,” said Jamaat leader.

 

Since the law was passed by the Parliament on December 11, there have been massive nationwide protests against CAA, NRC and NPR. Some of the protests – all in BJP-ruled states turned violent – and around 30 people were killed, mostly in Uttar Pradesh and in police firing. Millions of people have hit streets protesting against CAA-NRC-NPR.

 

CAA seeks to grant citizenship to only Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain and Parsi migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.







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