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Article 35A case: Supreme Court defers hearing of petitions to April

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Jammu: The petitions against the Article-35-A which were to be heard in the Supreme Court on January 25 has been deferred to April now, reported the Kashmir Reader.

According to the report, the SC registry had set January 25 as the tentative date of hearing of four petitions against Article 35 A; however, “the date has been deferred as of now”.

“The SC registry has now set the tentative date of hearing as 9 April 2018,” the sources told Kashmir Reader. “There was no hearing of the case at all on Thursday. Only the date for hearing was deferred.

Th report also pointed out that the government has cited the appointed of interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma as a reson for the deferment of the case saying that the dialogue initiative started by him will be affected.

Sharma was appointed by GoI on October 24 last year to start a dialogue for sustained peace in the valley. Sharama has been visiting the valley since and meeting various shades of opinion. Hurriyat leaders, considered to the main stakeholders, have till now, refused to take part in the talks calling it a waste of time.

Article 35 A was challenged twice in the early 1960s, but the SC upheld the law on both occasions. Added to the Constitution of India by Presidential Order in 1954, the Article accords special rights and privileges to the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir and empowers the J&K legislature to frame any law without attracting a challenge on grounds of violating the Right to Equality of people from other states of India or any other right under the Indian Constitution.

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