The Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, is a law passed by the Indian Parliament in 2019. It aims to amend the country’s citizenship laws, defines illegal immigrants and lays down the rules and prerequisites for applying for Indian citizenship. It allows minorities of six communities, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, from India’s neighboring countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh — who entered India before 31 December 2014 to get citizenship more easily on the grounds of religious persecution.
The introduction of this bill led to mass protests from students, civil society, and the opposition parties as religion for the first time was made a test of Indian citizenship. The most notable was a 100-plus day protest in Shaheen Bagh, a working-class Muslim neighbourhood in the country’s capital, New Delhi with Muslim women at the forefront of this protest.
Four years after the CAA’s initial introduction and passing, the rules were brought into effect in March 2024.
It’s unbelievable how people are unable to see what the government is attempting to do here. It could have given citizenship to refugees in one swoop without any need for something like CAA . The entire purpose is to create a citizenship criteria disguised as a humanitarian law. Now they can ask people to provide citizenship as per the citizenship law which is very hard for most indians to prove. However the worst case scenario for anyone other than Muslims is that they have to say they migrated from neighbouring countries in whichever year they have documents for . For muslims if you can’t find birth certificate of your ancestors which almost 90% indians don’t have. Your future is a detention camp or foreigners tribunal at best. All this while your business/job will be destroyed and the mental torture caused. What is the expectation from an indian Muslim ? Wait as the government which has a track record and established ideology of discrimination against them unfold their grand scheme on them.
Very sad, but true. Look no further than Shri Ranjan Gogoi, MP.
Independence of judiciary in our country is a myth irrespective of whichever party in power.Emergency period was altogether different and should be kept aside.Performance of SC in a given period is to be judged on merit of its verdicts alone.
There is no emergency now. Can’t they function independently.
SC is doing whats the best for the country acting a kind of wait & watch kind of thing & to maintain the discipline & avoid anarchy in the country, showing a kind of maturity & balance to maintain the peace in the society, saving from anarchists rather than act like the Higher Court. As we have seen how the anti CAA has turned up, deliberately the opposition & certain media has misguided the mass and started the fire but for the Assam agitation the anti CAA was not gathered momentum. Of course, a very few print media & visual ones has clearly said the Assamese Problem is different, still majority one did not support it & most of the medias supporting the anarchist to help & instigate the innocent & poor people to take a cue from this. Where were the Higher Courts & their judgments, then on suo motto they should have clarified this. People would have respected their intervention & this would have avoided violence & saved the public & private property.
It is crystal clear that the opposition supported by the media is some how bring down the Modi & his government fanning anarchy which will lead to Economic disaster & peace in the country by their controversial judgments. None of these higher courts has said or passed on the guide line to suppress the violence & damaging the public & private properties in the guise of protest. Who will protect the people who suffered the loss of property, lives & Lively hood.
At the end of the day the Higher Courts are only the Higher & never becomes Supreme Court by just passing on such orders without suggesting the alternative. Yes the present government is firm in handling these kind of trouble makers in the guise of NGO, Liberals & Opposition parties who could not contain the ruling party in parliament with debates & justification by substantiating their claim., at the end of the day the common man is suffering. And better you guys stop this nonsense notion that if judgement or the responsible action by the SC as support to Govt. It is heartening to see that now a days the SC will not give a scant value for such opinions & responses. Thanks.
Yes, I agree that SC should not have allowed Shaheen Bagh protests to continue on-road and should have told them to move to a neutral place without any delay. Now High courts- what was the reason of UP Hight court to take Suo moto cognizance of naming and shaming posters in Lucknow, for those people who destroyed public property and this was done on Sunday. Guwahati High court stopping the ban on the internet ? Fact is that judiciary is acting which actually is not its domain because it does not face the protestors on road. I remember during Punjab insurgency, bail was granted to terrorists even before their entry into the court. Some of the judges even got up when the terrorists entered the court. If judiciary has to behave in the same way, what is the point? How can you allow someone destroying public and private property, be caught on camera and still protect his right to privacy? This is a big joke. It emboldens protestors and terrorists to continue their war against the state. What about the rights of people whose property has been destroyed? No appreciation for Judiciary in the cases mentioned above.
Surely I give example of of civil case of sale of 100 Sqm. House. Man sold it in 1993 after death of his father in 1988. Denied the agreement. Suit for specific performance was decreed in 2001. This continuously become final upto Supreme Court in 2010. In its execution his deceased sisters sons claimed share in house these objections were dismissed its appeal was remand back now in this execution his heirs filed suit and objections in 2013 these all were dismissed. Appeals were dismissed. But in high court did not mention that case has already been final upto Supreme Court and made share of his sisters in 2018. Appeal and review in Supreme Court were dismissed. Execution was started for 1/ 3 share. In his reply sellar said that appeal in civil suit is still pending in High court . Court made second sale deed and only symbolic possession is given in 2019. Now in March 2020 High Court Chandigarh has admitted the RSA and stayed the execution proceeding which were being made after being final second time from Honorable Supreme Court of India. Contact No. 8221828128
Where were you when the Supreme Court struck down the NJAC Act? Collegium system perpetuates dynasties and croneism in judiciary. If the supreme court is less activist now, only people who should grumble would be Indira Jaisingh, Vrinda Grover, ML Sharma et al. Enough of socio-political reform through judiciary. India is paying dear price for it. In fact, Harish Salve blames the supreme court for dire economic straits of India.
Let me simplify this for not so luminous readers here. This means that as long as SC judgments are what Congress & its eco system want, its fine. BUT, if, heaven forbid, the judgment goes against Congress & its coteries – SC is corrupt, judges have no spine, Judiciary is impotent etc etc. To further simplify it, if congress or AAP or Mamta wins elections EVM’s are fine, BUT if they are defeated – EVM is faulty. Got it?
You are behaving irresponsible no govt will allow hoodlooms to creat chaos by using social media. Today people work more for publicity or political gains. More so because you can creat more trouble on line. How many lives or property has been lost due to so called unconstitunal actions.
If some court gives the verdict left liberals wanted then they hail the courts else in their view courts are useless.
This same hypocrisy is the reason why people no longer believe these liberal crooks
People should only believe idiots like you.