New Delhi [India], March 13 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly Debabrata Saikia filed an Interlocutory Application (IA) before the Supreme Court challenging the Rules of implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) published by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Saikia also challenged the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. “The Rules, as their parent Act, make religion and country-based classification which fails the “manifest arbitrariness” test laid down in Shayara Bano V Union of India (2017) 9 SCO 1 in that “it is not fair, not reasonable, discriminatory, not tran…
