All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi has moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024.
Owaisi prayed that no applications seeking citizenship status should be entertained under the Act until the main petition was disposed of.
He further sought directions that no recourse should be allowed under the proviso to Section 2(1)(b) of the Act.
A batch of petitions have been filed in the Apex Court following the Central government notifying the Citizenship Amendment Rules to enforce the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
The AIMIM leader had moved the Apex Court in 2019 also, stating that the present Citizenship (Amendment) Act ‘miserably’ failef on the touchstone of Article 14.