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New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday agreed to list for hearing an application seeking direction for restoration of the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir within two months. Advocate Gopal Shankarnarayan mentioned the application for urgent listing of the matter, to which a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that it will list the case.
The application has said that it becomes necessary that appropriate directions are passed directing the status of Statehood of Jammu and Kashmir to be restored at the earliest in a time-bound manner as had been undertaken by the Union of India.
Filed by college teacher Zahoor Ahmed Bhat and activist Khurshaid Ahmad Malik, the application stated that despite the assurance given by the Solicitor General that Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood would be restored, the Union has not taken any steps in that regard in the last ten months after the judgment in the Article 370 case.
The application was filed through advocate Soyaib Qureshi in the disposed of case of abrogation of Article 370 which the Supreme Court upheld the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The applicants, being the conscious citizens of Jammu and Kashmir are aggrieved that, even after the passing of 10 months of the order dated August 11, 2023, till date no steps have been taken to restore the status of statehood of Jammu and Kashmir as a state which is gravely affecting the rights of the inhabitants of Jammu and Kashmir and also violating the basic structure of federalism; and it is for that reason that the applicants have preferred the present application to seek appropriate directions to the Union of India for restoration of the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir in a time-bound manner within a period of two months,” stated the application.
