A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud on Tuesday started hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of Section 6A, which was inserted into the Citizenship Act of 1955 in 1985 as a special provision to deal with the citizenship of people covered under Assam Accord a tripartite agreement that All Assam Students' Union (AASU) signed with the Assam government and Rajiv Gandhi-led Union government, to preserve and protect the cultural, linguistic and social identity of Assam.
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