Srinagar, Aug 29 (PTI) PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said the arguments by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta in Supreme Court during the hearings on a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 vindicated her party’s stand that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir was far from normal.<\/p>\n
The Solicitor General on Tuesday informed a five-judge constitution bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, that the Union Territory status of Jammu and Kashmir is not a “permanent thing” and the Centre will make an elaborate statement on the vexatious political issue in the court on August 31.<\/p>\n
The bench was hearing Mehta’s submissions defending the Centre’s decision to do away with the special status of the former state and its reorganisation.<\/p>\n
“Despite GOI’s tall claims, SG’s statement before the SC today vindicates our stand that the situation is far from normal in J&K,” Mufti posted on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n
She said the Solicitor General is making the argument only as an excuse to defend the Centre’s “constitutional harakiri”.<\/p>\n
“Even to achieve this abnormal normalcy, J&K has been turned into an open air prison. Tushar Mehta is now invoking our argument only as an excuse to defend GOI’s constitutional hara-kiri,” she said on the microblogging site.<\/p>\n
NC leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minster Omar Abdullah also called Mehta’s argument a “diversion”.<\/p>\n
“The SG is a very competent & clever litigator. He’s trying to divert the focus of the arguments to the centre’s view of ‘normalcy’. This is a trap best avoided,” Abdullah said.<\/p>\n
He underlined that the apex court has not been petitioned to rule on the security situation or normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the “simple question for the Hon CJ & other judges on the bench is to decide whether the changes forced on J&K in 2019 were legal & constitutional or not”.<\/p>\n
“Everything else is a diversion,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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