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Rights or wrong?: On U.N. rights body move against CAA (The Hindu)

Mains Paper 2: Polity
Prelims level: U.N. rights body
Mains level: Implications of the U.N. rights body move on CAA

Context:

• The application on behalf of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, seeking to be heard as amicus curiae in the pending litigation in the Supreme Court against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, is undoubtedly an unusual step.

What are the U.N. rights body’s requirement?

• As expected, the government sees it as unwarranted interference.
• It does appear that the move is unnecessary as the global human rights perspective that High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet Jeria hopes to present is most likely to be raised by some of the petitioners themselves.
• After all, most of the 140-.....................................................

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What the government will do?

• The Modi government may be unhappy with the U.N. rights body’s “overreach”, but it will have to be underscored that the CAA’s flawed structure and the aggressive manner in which it was initially linked with a post-implementation exercise to purge the country of illegal immigrants have contributed to the present situation.
• The political Opposition, sections of the legal fraternity, academicians and commentators have made a strong case that making religion a factor to include certain categories for a fast-tracked naturalisation process is violative of secular principles.
• The government’s stout defence of the CAA is that no current Indian citizen would be affected, and that it was meant to help persecuted minorities in countries where Islam was the state religion.

Conclusion:

• In addition to having to discharge the burden of proving that the CAA does not contravene the Constitution, the government would have to demonstrate that it is not in violation of provisions of the International .......................

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Prelims Questions:

Q1. With reference to the Hurun Global Rich List 2020, consider the following statements:
1. U.K and the US occupied the first and second spot with 799 and 626 billionaires, respectively.
2. India added 34 new billionaires to take the count to 138 on the list which has helped the country to feature at the third position globally.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

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Mains Questions:
Q1. Highlights the significance ............................................?

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