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In its December 11, 2023 decision, the court docket had upheld the presidential express which took away the special establish of Jammu and Kashmir.
Supreme Court of India has dismissed petitions seeking a overview of a December 2023 decision that upheld a name by the Indian Parliament to abrogate the special establish of the erstwhile say of Jammu and Kashmir.
A five-diagram to a name bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, Surya Kant and AS Bopanna concluded that the sooner judgment used to be impeccable.
“Having perused the overview petitions, there is no longer any error apparent on the face of the fable. No case for overview below Command XLVII Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Concepts 2013. The overview petitions are, attributable to this truth, dismissed,” the bench noted in its Would possibly well merely 1 express made public on Tuesday (Would possibly well merely 21).
In its December 11 decision, the court docket had upheld the presidential express which took away the special establish of Jammu and Kashmir. It refused to intervene after the Solicitor Customary, the government’s advocate, assured the court docket that the statehood of the Jammu and Kashmir territory may presumably be restored on the earliest.
In the landmark judgment, the Supreme Court had upheld the abrogation of Article 370 granting semi-independent establish to Jammu and Kashmir. The court docket dominated that the Parliament had the legislative competence to construct the laws and that the abrogation did now no longer violate the normal building of the Structure.
The court docket also licensed the formation of Ladakh as a separate Union Territory (UT), citing parliament’s powers to construct so without taking the say assembly’s nod.
Petitioners Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Court Bar Affiliation, Awami Nationwide Conference, Muzaffar Iqbal Khan and Jammu and Kashmir People’s Circulate had contended that the Structure Bench reached ‘unfounded conclusions’, acknowledged reviews.
(With inputs from agencies)
Vikrant Singh
Geopolitical author at WION, follows Indian foreign policy and world politics, a logician.
