Supreme Court refuses to put stay on Citizenship law, issues notice to Centre
New DelhiI/IBNS: In a relief for the Narendra Modi government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to put a stay on the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and issued a notice to the Centre over 60 petitions filed against the new law which will grant citizenship to all non-Muslim refugees who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015.
The top court will hear the case on Jan 22.
The All India Muslim League (AIML), Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and several activists had filed the petitions.
Several opposition parties have accused the Centre of violating Article 14, which guarantees equality, through the citizenship law.
Over the last few days, protests were witnessed by north-eastern states, West Bengal, Delhi, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu.
Protests had turned violent in West Bengal with several buses, trains were put on fire by agitators.
On Sunday evening, a peaceful protest called by the Jamia Millia University students turned violent when buses were set on fire.
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