The Supreme Court has agreed to deem listening to a plea for statehood in Jammu and Kashmir. The apex court had beforehand upheld the revocation of Article 370 and called for assembly elections by September 2024.
The Supreme Court of India (SC) on October 17 acknowledged that this may occasionally deem itemizing a plea on the lookout for time-sure restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported.
This comes after senior imply Gopal Sankaranarayanan appealed for a “pressing listening to” to a bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
“There is an Miscellaneous Application (MA) for conferring statehood. It was once notorious (in final one year’s judgement) that it must be time-sure,” Sankaranarayanan told the bench, to which the CJI responded: “I will take care of it.”
Sankaranarayanan was once urging the plea on behalf of his clients — Jammu and Kashmir academician Zahoor Ahmad Bhat and socio-political activist Khurshaid Ahmad Malik.
What Is The Plea?
The applying acknowledged that appropriate instructions are “obligatory” for the Centre to revive the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir “on the earliest, in a time-sure manner”, per an ANI file.
It also notorious that no topic the Solicitor Total’s assurance that J&K’s statehood may well well be restored, the executive has yet to opt out any steps within the past 10 months since the SC’s judgment on the Article 370 case.
“If instructions to revive the set of the Statehood of Jammu and Kashmir are no longer passed on the earliest by this court it may possibly maybe well result in grave hurt being precipitated to the federal construction of the country,” it added.
Supreme Court Upheld Abrogation of Article 370
On December 11, 2023, the apex court unanimously upheld the revocation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which accorded a sure set to the erstwhile sing of Jammu and Kashmir.
Within the listening to it had also ordered that sing assembly elections be held there by September 2024. The court had also acknowledged that Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood desires to be restored “on the earliest”.
(With inputs from PTI)
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17 Oct 2024, 02: 16 PM IST
Alternate NewsNewsIndiaSupreme Court to deem plea for restoring Jammu and Kashmir statehood
