The IUML (petitioner), which was one of the first parties to challenge the CAA before the top court in 2019, now sought stay on the Rules.The Parliament on December 11, 2019 passed the CAA and also got the President’s assent the following day.IUML, in its fresh plea, said CAA Rules creates a highly truncated and fast-tracked process for the grant of citizenships to non-Muslim migrants from the specified countries, thereby making operational a manifestly arbitrary and discriminatory regime solely on the ground of religious identity.”Rules are manifestly arbitrary and create an unfair advantage in favour of a class of persons solely on the ground of their religious identity, which is impermissible under articles 14 and 15 of the Indian Constitution। Since the CAA is discriminates on the basis of religion, it strikes at the root of secularism, which is the basic structure of the Constitution. India’s constitutional framework, read with obligations under the international law, mandates a framework of refugee protection that is non-discriminatory,” IUML said in his plea filed before the top court.
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