KOZHIKODE: The anti-CAA Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking a stay on the Union home ministry’s order empowering officials in 13 districts across five states to grant citizenship to non-Muslim religious minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh under the Citizenship Act, 1955.
IUML termed the order an attempt by Centre to implement its “mala fide designs envisaged under CAA”. The Centre is yet to frame the rules for implementation of the new legislation.
The home ministry’s May 28 order empowers officials in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab to grant citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from the three countries residing in the specified 13 districts