Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Jammu And Kashmir Split telegraphindia.com
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stay the Centre’s reported decision to begin from October 31 the process of bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into Union territories, observing that it can “put the clock back” if need be.
A five-judge constitution bench of Justices N.V. Ramana, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, R. Subhash Reddy, Bushan Gavai and Surya Kant, however, granted four weeks’ time to the government to file its response on a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of the provisions in Article 370 that granted Jammu and Kashmir its special status and the proposed bifurcation of the state into Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The court posted the matter for further hearing to November 14.
“This court can put the clock back if we decide the matter in your favor. But we cannot hear the matter without getting a response from the government,” Justice Ramana, heading the bench, told senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing for some of the petitioners.
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