Topic: CAA
Foreign minorities, except Muslims, allowed to stay in India without passports if they arrived before 2025, says Home Ministry
In an order issued on Monday, the Union Home Ministry announced that members of minority communities, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, fleeing religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan will be permitted to remain in India without passports or travel documents, provided they arrived in the country on or before December 31, 2024.
Assam govt to drop Foreigners Tribunal cases against non-Muslims citing CAA
Citing the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, the Assam government has directed district authorities and members of the foreigners tribunals to drop cases against individuals...
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha passes resolution rejecting CAA, UCC, NRC in Jharkhand
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), during its 46th foundation day celebrations at Gandhi Maidan in Dumka on Sunday night, passed a 50-point resolution strongly opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Jharkhand.
Declared ‘foreigners’, 28 Muslims in Assam sent to detention centre
Police in western Assam’s Barpeta district sent 28 Muslims declared “non-citizens” by the Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) to a ‘transit camp’ at Matia in the Goalpara district on Monday.
Assam govt directs border police to stop sending cases of non-Muslims to foreigners tribunals
The Assam government days ago asked the state’s border police not to forward the cases of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain, and Christian people who entered India illegally before 2014 to the Foreigners Tribunals, citing the CAA.
Plea challenging CAA rules: SC seeks reply from Union and Assam State governments
The Supreme Court on April 19 sought a reply from the Union government and the Assam State government on a petition challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024, which aims to grant citizenship to ‘non-Muslim’ migrants who came from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 31, 2014.
