The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned a scheduled Constitution Bench hearing on a series of petitions challenging the constitutionality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, to December 5.
Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud postponed the hearing, fixed on November 7, on the urging of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Indira Jaising and other senior lawyers.
Section 6A was a special provision inserted into the 1955 Act in furtherance of a Memorandum of Settlement called the ‘Assam Accord’ signed on August 15, 1985 by the then Rajiv Gandhi government with the leaders of the Assam Movement to preserve and protect the Assamese culture, heritage, linguistic and social identity.
