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SC reserves verdict on a batch of pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370 in J&K

| @indiablooms | Sep 06, 2023, at 01:49 am

New Delhi/IBNS/UNI Supreme Court's five-judge Constitution bench Tuesday reserved its judgement on the batch of pleas challenging the validity of the Centre's August 2019 decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcate it to Union Territories.

The five-judge Constitution bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud reserved its verdict after hearing 16 days of arguments and submissions from petitioners, respondents -- Centre and others -- on the issue.

The four other judges in the five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, besides the CJI heading it, were Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, B R Gavai, and Surya Kant, who heard the arguments from parties.

Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, senior law officer representing the Union of India (UOI) told the apex court that the government is always for national integration.

Defending the Centre's August 5, 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370, the SG said that in 2020 for the first time in decades, local body elections took place with no hartal, no stone pelting or curfews.

"New hotels are being built. Everyone has benefited from the decision," Mehta told the court.

He said the youth in Kashmir, who used to work for terror groups, are employed gainfully now.

Meanwhile, petitioners who had moved the Supreme Court opposed the abrogation of Article 370 and argued that it was not for the betterment of the people of J&K and it should be quashed.

Senior Advocate V Giri, for one of the Petitioners, argued that Article 370 carved out an area for Jammu and Kashmir which was not 'in sync' with the general federal features of the Constitution for the rest of the country 8 hours ago.

While Kashmir has gone through some tough times in history, with the abrogation of Article 370 it feels like Kashmir has been exiled from itself. Recent events, like the communication blackout, have confined Kashmiris to their homes, a lawyer for one of the petitioners argued.

The petitioners argued that Article 370 acted as a vital "bridge" between the state of Jammu and Kashmir and India; its removal would equate to severing that connection.

The essence of representative democracy suffered when Parliament alone became the voice for a region's desires, overlooking the constitutional requirement to consider the state's perspectives, the petitioners said.

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