On Thursday, the Supreme Court said it would consider a plea to list a time-bound restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan appeared for the applicants. He urged a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra to consider the plea urgently.
There is an MA in place for conferring statehood. It was observed (in last year’s judgment) that it has to be time-bound,” the senior lawyer said.
Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, an academician, and Khurshid Ahmad Malik, a socio-political activist, have filed a fresh application in Jammu and Kashmir.
On December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court upheld the abrogation unanimously in 2019.
Article 370 of the Constitution gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and ordered assembly elections to be conducted there by September 2024.
The court had also said that Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood should be restored “at the earliest”.
