Legal Perspective on the Citizen Amendment Act and the NRC exercise

  • Simone Fernandes
  • July 14, 2020

Content :

In December, 2019 the CAA and NRC became hotbeds for news as well as for protests. This paper deals with Assam’s NRC in detail and explains why and how it came to being. It also deals with the question of the legality of the NRC. This paper then moves onto what is the CAA and gives a complete rundown of the provisions of the Act which are usually not discussed since only Section 2 of the Act is placed importance on due to its highly controversial nature. The paper further delves on the linkage between CAA and NRC and why these two terms are often used together. It also deals with the impacts that the CAA and NRC will have together in Assam. The main motive behind writing this paper is not to enforce the author’s personal views in a very loud and bombastic manner but instead to highlight the arguments for and against the CAA and let the reader make up his mind on his own. This method of research paper writing was chosen because there are ample articles on both sides of the CAA and each of those articles only mention the facts that are relevant to prove their side of the story and hence the author has given a detailed description of all the aspects relating to CAA and NRC. Lastly this paper contains the sequence of all the relevant events that took place after the CAA came into force.