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Kerala and CAA
January 20 , 2020
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- The Kerala government invoked Article 131 to file a petition against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in the Supreme Court.
- Kerala has become the first state to move the apex court challenging CAA stating that it violates Article 14, Article 21 and Article 25 of the Indian constitution.
- Article 131, known as original jurisdiction, vests the Supreme Court with original jurisdiction over any dispute arising between the states or between the centre and state.
- The article gives the Supreme Court the power to take up such cases straight instead of going through a lower court or reviewing a lower court’s judgement.
- Several petitions have been filed against the CAA act in the Supreme Court.
- The apex court may hear the petitions separately or club them together but Kerala Government’s petition cannot be clubbed with those petitions.
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