IUML challenges in Supreme Court govt order on citizenship for non-Muslim refugees

It’s a clever way to implement ‘malafide designs” of CAA to grant citizenship on sole basis of religion

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has challenged in the Supreme Court a government order of May 28 inviting non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, residing in India, to apply for citizenship. An application, filed through advocates Haris Beeran and Pallavi Pratap, urged the court to immediately stay the May 28 order. It said the order actually delegated the power to grant citizenship by registration and naturalisation to Collectors of certain districts. TheUnion Home Ministry’s order was a clever way to implement the “malafide designs” of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) to grant Indian citizenship on the sole basis of religion. According to the CAA, Indian citizenship will be given to non-Muslim persecuted minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian -- who had come to India till December 31, 2014.