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Notifying CAA Rules after five years is a give-away that Union is in no hurry to implement the law: Kerala in SC

The State of Kerala has moved an application in the Supreme Court seeking an injunction against the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024.

The State said the Centre took over five years to notify the Rules. This itself indicated that the Union government was in no hurry to implement the law which discriminated against Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh on the grounds of religion and country.

“The fact that the defendant (Union) itself has no urgency in the implementation of the 2019 Act is a sufficient cause for staying the 2024 Rules,” the State, which had earlier filed an original suit against the validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), argued.

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