Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Clearing the decks for elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court on Monday discovered nothing unlawful within the Delimitation Commission redrawing ballot constituencies and rising the Assembly seats from 107 to 114, together with 24 seats in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
A bench of Justices S Ok Kaul and A S Oka declared the notifications issued in 2020 by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice for constituting the Delimitation Commission for J&Ok legitimate. Justice Oka, who authored the 54-page ruling, clarified that the judgment could have no bearing on the problem of validity of the Delimitation Act and the Article 370 petitions pending earlier than one other bench of the Supreme Court.
The bench mentioned its findings are on the footing that the train of energy made in 2019 below clauses (1) and (3) of Article 370 of the Constitution is legitimate. Appearing for Srinagar residents Haji Abdul Ghani Khan and Mohammad Ayub Mattoo, senior advocate Ravi Shankar Jandhyala had argued that the structure of the fee was with out energy, jurisdiction and authority.
NEW DELHI: Clearing the decks for elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court on Monday discovered nothing unlawful within the Delimitation Commission redrawing ballot constituencies and rising the Assembly seats from 107 to 114, together with 24 seats in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
A bench of Justices S Ok Kaul and A S Oka declared the notifications issued in 2020 by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice for constituting the Delimitation Commission for J&Ok legitimate. Justice Oka, who authored the 54-page ruling, clarified that the judgment could have no bearing on the problem of validity of the Delimitation Act and the Article 370 petitions pending earlier than one other bench of the Supreme Court.
The bench mentioned its findings are on the footing that the train of energy made in 2019 below clauses (1) and (3) of Article 370 of the Constitution is legitimate. Appearing for Srinagar residents Haji Abdul Ghani Khan and Mohammad Ayub Mattoo, senior advocate Ravi Shankar Jandhyala had argued that the structure of the fee was with out energy, jurisdiction and authority.
