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The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed January 10 for hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the contentious Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, enacted in furtherance of the Assam Accord of 1985, which allowed grant of citizenship to those persons of Indian origin from Bangladesh entering Assam before January 1, 1966.

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The Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, on Tuesday said it will start hearings on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955. This provision provides a separate set of cutoff dates for granting citizenship in Assam from February 14, 1955. The Constitution Bench heard preliminary arguments and framed the issues and directed all parties to file a short report on the matters of the case again within three weeks. The order issued that the next hearing will be held on February 14.

The government argued that restricting the purview of the CAA to minority communities facing persecution in three Islamic countries qualified for reasonable classification was in keeping with the spirit that led the Constitution to accept as citizens people who flooded India from undivided Pakistan.

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