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The Supreme Court is scheduled perceive connected Thursday (February 19, 2026), implicit 250 petitions challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and its Rules, which accelerate the assistance of Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The petitions are scheduled earlier a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant.
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The lawsuit had travel up past successful 2024 earlier a Bench led by past Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud. Senior advocator Kapil Sibal, for the petitioners, had past argued that the Act came into beingness successful 2019, and the authorities had waited for astir 5 years to notify the Rules. “Once the process of assistance of citizenship starts nether this Act, it cannot beryllium reversed,” Mr. Sibal had submitted successful an oral mentioning.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appears for the Union government. The Centre had challenged the locus standi of the petitioners to question whether oregon not the Centre could assistance citizenship.
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