The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 19) issued notice to the Centre on a batch of petitions seeking direction to the Centre to stay the implementation of the recently-notified Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024, until the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 has been decided upon by the top court.
The court asked the Centre to file its response by April 8 and posted the matter for hearing on April 9. Petitioners urged the Supreme Court to stay the Citizen Amendment Rules, 2024, however, the court didn’t pass any such order.