The Supreme Court on Monday, 12 September, adjourned the public interest litigation (PILs) challenging the constitutional validity of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to 31 October.
A bench comprising Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat heard several pending PILs, including the lead petition against the CAA by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), according to the list of businesses uploaded on the apex court’s website.
The court also sought the Union government's response to pleas challenging the CAA, along with responses from the governments of Assam and Tripura, Law Beat reported.
The CAA seeks to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain, and Parsi communities who came to the country from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on or before 31 December 2014.
Muslim immigrants, however, have been excluded.