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“This is dangerous. What happened to J&K sets a precedent for other states.”
@AdnanAshrafMir of @JKPC_, petitioner in challenge to removal of #Article370 in #Jammu & #Kashmir. Case pending before #SupremeCourt for 1115 days. Last hearing: 2.5 yrs ago
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In April 2022, a petitioner in J&K #Article370 abrogation case requested Chief Justice N V Ramana’s bench for a hearing.
His answer: “We’ll see”.
He said he would reconstitute 5-judge bench & hear case “after the vacation”, which ended on 10 July. There was no hearing
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“The judges must show some willingness to hear this case or they must give an explanation as to why they can’t hear the case on priority despite (sic) 3 years,” Mir told @OfficialSauravD
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During the early days of hearings, petitioners had sought a “status quo”, arguing that if realities on the ground changed while the case was pending, the case could be irrelevant. The Court said effects of the J&K Reorganisation Act could always be reversed
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The effects of the Act are "difficult to reverse,” said Mir. “What is happening with the domicile bill, matters of employment, etc, cannot be reversed. I would have liked the Court to show some urgency. There seems to be a bias, from an outsider point-of-view.”
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Petitioners argue that downgrading a state to a union territory is unconstitutional & #Article370 could not have been amended without concurrence of J&K’s constituent assembly, which had been dissolved. The governor, appointed by the union government, gave that concurrence
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