India’s Supreme Court today upheld the validity of the abrogation of the Constitution’s Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, in a boost to the decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s over four years ago.
Indian Supreme Court will examine the constitutional validity of scrapping special status for Jammu and Kashmir as it issued a notice to the Centre on petitions related to abrogation of Article 370.
Six days after India revoked the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories, Kashmiri students in the national capital are still not able to communicate with their relatives and parents back home.
The Indian government yesterday stripped Kashmir of the special autonomy it has had for seven decades, prompting a furious response from nuclear-armed rival Pakistan and raising fears of further violence in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region.
In a landmark decision, the Bharatiya Janata Party government headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir state, has been removed.
India’s Supreme Court today upheld the validity of the abrogation of the Constitution’s Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, in a boost to the decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s over four years ago.
Indian Supreme Court will examine the constitutional validity of scrapping special status for Jammu and Kashmir as it issued a notice to the Centre on petitions related to abrogation of Article 370.
Six days after India revoked the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories, Kashmiri students in the national capital are still not able to communicate with their relatives and parents back home.
The Indian government yesterday stripped Kashmir of the special autonomy it has had for seven decades, prompting a furious response from nuclear-armed rival Pakistan and raising fears of further violence in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region.
In a landmark decision, the Bharatiya Janata Party government headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir state, has been removed.