Overview
- The bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi will hear petitioners on May 5 and the first half of May 6, respondents on the second half of May 6 and May 7, with rejoinders on May 12.
- Parties were directed to file any additional documents and written submissions within four weeks, with nodal counsel to identify and group cases for the registry to list in sequence.
- The court will first take up pan-India petitions, then separately hear matters from Assam and Tripura, which involve issues like Section 6A and a different historical cut‑off date for citizenship.
- Roughly 240–250 petitions are consolidated in the case, led by the Indian Union Muslim League’s plea, moving forward after the matter was last actively listed on March 19, 2024.
- The CAA fast-tracks citizenship for specified non‑Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who arrived by December 31, 2014, a policy challenged as discriminatory under Article 14 even as the Centre defends it as not affecting existing citizens’ rights and points to 2024 Rules enabling implementation.