Supreme Court: The Supreme Court has upheld the delimitation of assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir. The petition challenging this process has been dismissed by the court. The court also said that after the deactivation of Article 370, the issue of reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is pending with it. He has not considered this aspect in this hearing.
In the petitions of Haji Abdul Ghani Khan and Mohammad Ayub Mattu, residents of Srinagar, it was said that the correct procedure was not followed in the delimitation. The Central Government, the Jammu and Kashmir Administration and the Election Commission had called this argument wrong. On 13 May 2022, the Supreme Court issued a notice on this matter. Even then the court had made it clear that the hearing would be held only on delimitation. The issue related to the removal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir will not be considered.
The decision was kept safe in the year 2022
On December 1 last year, a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka had reserved the verdict. During the hearing, the petitioner side argued that the constitution of the commission headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Desai for the delimitation of assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir is not correct according to the constitutional provisions.
These arguments were given…
The petitioners had also argued that the boundaries of the assembly constituencies have been changed in the delimitation. New areas have been included in it. The number of seats has been increased from 107 to 114, including 24 seats in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This is not in accordance with section 63 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, on behalf of the Central Government, said…
Responding on behalf of the Central Government, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had said that under Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Constitution, the Parliament has been empowered to make laws related to the formation and arrangement of a new state or administrative unit in the country. Under this, the Delimitation Commission has been constituted earlier also. Apart from this, it is also wrong of the petitioner to say that the delimitation has been implemented only in Jammu and Kashmir. It has also been started for Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland.
Read this also.
Aero India 2023: ‘Vision of New India,’ PM Modi released postal stamp in Asia’s largest air show