- Rajesh Tyagi/ 14.8.2019
Yesterday, on 13 August, Supreme Court refused an early hearing in the Writ Petition challenging the imposition of an undeclared emergency in Kashmir by the central government that includes detention of the opposition leaders, blackout of all communication and shutdown of all facilities- banking, grocery, bakery etc.
A three-judge bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, M.R. Shah and Ajay Rastogi refused to take up the matter for hearing and adjourned it for two weeks on Tuesday.
Declining the request for urgent hearing in the case, the Court observed "The present situation in Jammu and Kashmir is very sensitive and it should be ensured that there is no loss of life there".
Fearing a backlash from the locals to its cunning political intrigue of splitting the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two centre ruled Union Territories and forcing the Constitution of India upon Kashmir through abrogation of its Articles 370 and 35-A that had conferred limited autonomy upon the state, the centre had placed the entire region under a military lockdown. Tens of thousands of security personnel were dispatched to valley well in advance to reinforce the force of more than five lakh already deployed in the valley with less than a population of 14 lakh.
A three-judge bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, M.R. Shah and Ajay Rastogi refused to take up the matter for hearing and adjourned it for two weeks on Tuesday.
Declining the request for urgent hearing in the case, the Court observed "The present situation in Jammu and Kashmir is very sensitive and it should be ensured that there is no loss of life there".
Fearing a backlash from the locals to its cunning political intrigue of splitting the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two centre ruled Union Territories and forcing the Constitution of India upon Kashmir through abrogation of its Articles 370 and 35-A that had conferred limited autonomy upon the state, the centre had placed the entire region under a military lockdown. Tens of thousands of security personnel were dispatched to valley well in advance to reinforce the force of more than five lakh already deployed in the valley with less than a population of 14 lakh.
