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The proposed new amendment will create a national database of citizens where currently only state databases of births and deaths exist; the government will then integrate this database with the population register and electoral rolls.
The bench said the office of the Solicitor General shall prepare a complete list of matters which shall be put in different segments depending upon the challenge raised in the petitions.
The Union home minister has claimed that violence and graft was rampant in West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee.
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant said the state government will refund the entire amount worth crores of rupees, recovered from the alleged protestors due to the proceedings initiated in 2019.
He was replying to a question from Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on whether the government had missed the deadline to frame and notify CAA rules and the steps taken in this context.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita and Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha
The government is yet to frame rules based on the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019
The Chief Minister alleged that both the RSS and SDPI are communal and "the Congress, a party which has lost its foundation in the state", was joining hands with them.
Accusing the opposition parties of misleading the minorities about the Citizenship (amendment) Act, he said, its implementation will not impact the citizenship status of Indian minorities.
The CAA facilitates granting of Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim minorities – Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian – of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.