New Delhi:
The Supreme
Court on Monday said it will hear on December 18 pleas of the Congress and
former Maharaja of Tripura Pradyot Kishor Deb Barman challenging constitutional
validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). A bench headed by Chief
Justice S A Bobde said it will hear the pleas along with other pending matters
coming up for hearing on December 18.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned for urgent
listing the two pleas and said this petition should also be heard along with a
similar plea filed by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which is coming up
for hearing on Wednesday.
Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday termed the CAA and the National Register of
Citizens (NRC) as “weapons of mass polarisation” unleashed by fascists
on India and said the best defense against them is peaceful satyagraha.
Gandhi said he stands in solidarity with those protesting
peacefully against them. “The
CAB and NRC are weapons of mass polarisation unleashed by fascists on India.
The best defence against these dirty weapons is peaceful, nonviolent
Satyagraha. I stand in solidarity with all those protesting peacefully against
the CAB and NRC,” he said on Twitter. (PTI)
