Citizenship amendment act is considered against the secularism of indian constitution.Evaluate
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petitioners have added that the act is also a “blatant violation” of Articles 14 (equality before law), 21 (protection of life and liberty) and 25 (freedom of religion) and the basic structure of the Constitution. iStock photo
Deb Mukharji, former high commissioner to Bangladesh and former ambassador to Nepal, and two former IAS officers have petitioned the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, contending that it “violates every known principle of equality and equal treatment” and “damages and destroys the Constitution’s basic feature of secularism”.
According to Mukharji and co-petitioners Somasundar Burra and Amitabha Pande, the act discriminates between people from the “right religion” and those from the “wrong religion”.
“The impugned act states that refugees and asylum seekers belonging to the right religion (Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Parsi and Buddhist) and the right country of origin (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh) will be granted amnesty from prosecution as illegal migrants, and set on the fast track to citizenship,” the petition says.