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Why a UN body intends to intervene in a Supreme Court case against CAA?

-The Indian Express

The application questions the reasonableness and objectivity of the criterion of extending the benefits of the CAA to Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan alone.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights “intends to file” an Intervention Application in the Supreme Court of India, “seeking to intervene in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1474 of 2019 and praying that she be allowed to make submissions… as per Order XVII, Rule 3 of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013”. The case is ‘Deb Mukharji & Ors vs Union of India & Ors’, and relates to a challenge to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019.

* On what grounds is a UN body seeking to intervene in a case regarding a domestic Indian law?

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) is the leading UN entity on human rights. “The General Assembly entrusted both the High Commissioner and her Office with a unique mandate to promote and protect all human rights for all people,” the Rights body says on its website.

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