New Delhi: The Geneva -based United Nations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN- OHCHR) has filed an intervention application in the Supreme Court of India in respect to the 2019 CAA.

In a serious development highlighting growing International pressure on India over the CAA. The UN- OHCHR seeking to assist the Court in examining the compatibility of the CAA with India’s Constitution, in light of India’s obligations under the International Human Rights Law. Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner of Human Rights in her intervention “Amicus Curiae (friend of the Court) brief” filed the plea and has been voicing great concern over the CAA. The Union Government reacted swiftly, saying the CAA is an internal matter of India and that no foreign party has any locus standi on issues pertaining to India’s Sovereignty.

Terming the CAA as Constitutionally valid, the Indian Government expressed confidence that its sound and legally sustainable position would be vindicated by the Supreme Court. The Government also linked the need for the CAA to tragedy arising from the partition of (Undivided) India in 1947.