Old video of CJI Chandrachud's son Abhinav goes viral amid furore over CAA: 'This law makes no sense to me...'

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Citizenship Amendment Act seeks to grant citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014. Sharing Abhinav's viral video on CAA, Rajya Sabha MP and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi in a post on X (formerly Twitter) said, "Do listen to Abhinav Chandrachud on not just CAA but also the constitutional gaps over the years on citizenship." Abhinav has argued that those not falling under the CAA, have to wait for 11 years to become an Indian citizen by naturalisation constitutionally, while those covered under the CAA get to be a citizen in 5 years. "This does not make any sense to me." "The residence requirement in India has been reduced by the Citizenship Amendment Act.

So anyone else who wants to apply to be a citizen by naturalisation has to reside in India for 11 years. But for somebody who falls under the Citizenship Amendment Act, the residency requirement is only five years," Abhinav said sharing an example of how it applies to the Parsis. "Parsis originally fled Iran.

A Parsi who fled Iran and came to India has to wait 11 years to be naturalised as a citizen but a Parsi who flees Afghanistan has to wait only 5 years," Abhinav explained. The viral video is from 2020 when the anti-CAA protests were at a peak. The advocate, in the viral video, said that he had once questioned why the Jews were left out of the CAA.

To his surprise, he was told that they had a different country for them, Israel. Abhinav then argued that the Christians and Buddhists have their own country too, but are still a part of the CAA. He also added that the atheists and the agnostics, who don't know whether there is a God or not, have been excluded from the