About the Book: CAA, NRC and NPR: Constituional Analysi
The Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019 (hereinafter CAA) was enacted by the
central government on 11th December, 2019. The purpose of this legislation is to
provide citizenship to illegal immigrants of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhists, Jain, Parsi
and Christian religious minorities, who had faced persecution in countries like
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and had migrated to India before December,
2014. The CAA was passed as an amendment to the Citizenship Act, 1955, in order
to relax the naturalization requirements of the illegal immigrants fulfilling
the aforementioned conditions. The Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 introduced
two amendments in the Citizenship Act,