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Snapshot of the day

March 11, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

It’s election time and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act has been brought back to the headlines to polarise the country on religious lines once again. The law makes religion a criterion for the fast-track acquisition of citizenship by refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, with Muslim refugees explicitly excluded from its purview. The CAA’s constitutionality was assailed in 2019 itself but the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the matter.

The Supreme Court has ordered the State Bank of India to furnish the list of all those who bought and donated electoral bonds to various political parties over the past five years by tomorrow, rejecting its plea for time till the end of June to make this