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TopicCitizenship Amendment Act

Topic: Citizenship Amendment Act

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.

A year after Assam anti-CAA stir, families of those killed lend support to renewed movement

Karishma Hasnat -
Rallies, prayer ceremonies were held Saturday in remembrance of the five persons who died from gunshot wounds during the anti-CAA protests in Assam last year.

Indian envoy meets Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina as Dhaka, Islamabad look to revive ties

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In the past one week, Hasina met both the Indian high commissioner and the Pakistan envoy, while New Delhi and Dhaka are gearing up for a summit meeting on 17 Dec.

10 reasons why the Supreme Court is looking like a court of ‘trivial pursuits’

ThePrint Team -
In episode 622 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta lists 10 important cases the top court should have heard in the last few years.

Anti-CAA protesters wanted to engineer Delhi riots, not just block roads, says charge sheet

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Delhi Police says there are WhatsApp records of ‘key conspirators’ holding meetings & discussing consequences, including possible riots, and still going ahead.

Kafeel Khan, Sharjeel Usmani, Devangana Kalita’s orders not part of pattern, but exceptions

Yogendra Yadav -
In one respect, what is happening now is worse than 1984. Instead of just shielding the guilty, the police are actively going after anti-CAA protesters.

15 women, 30 men sexually assaulted by Delhi Police at February CAA clash in Jamia, report says

Bismee Taskin -
The report is based on a fact-finding mission conducted by National Federation of Indian Women which gathered testimonies from the injured and doctors & nurses who treated them.

DU professor Apoorvanand questioned by police for 3 hrs over Delhi riots, his phone seized

Bismee Taskin -
DU professor Apoorvanand says it is disturbing to see an emerging ‘theory’ that treats the ‘supporters of the protesters as the source of violence’.

CAA protesters’ arrest ‘designed to send chilling message’: UN asks India to free activists

Taran Deol -
US statement mentions 11 individuals, including Meeran Haider, Safoora Zargar, Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, Khalid Saifi, Dr Kafeel Khan, Sharjeel Imam & Akhil Gogoi.

CAA, Atmanirbhar Bharat, focus on Northeast were first propagated by this former RSS chief

Arun Anand -
The bugle for the need of many of these initiatives, which are now being initiated by Narendra Modi govt, was first sounded by K.S. Sudarshan, the fifth RSS chief. 

Modi govt transfers MHA’s media wing officers after ‘CAA wasn’t mentioned’ as an achievement

Ananya Bhardwaj -
The Modi govt was irked over a series of errors by the MHA’s media wing, but not mentioning the CAA in the list of achievements may have been a ‘tipping point’.
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