Bureaucrat says he has withdrawn his petition challenging the presidential order to scrap Article 370 a long time back
New Delhi: As the Supreme Court of India has scheduled July 11 to hear pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, IAS officer Shah Faesal, one of the petitioners has said that he has withdrawn his petition challenging the Presidential Order to scrap Article 370 a long time back.
While talking to news agency ANI over the phone, the bureaucrat said that he has withdrawn his petition challenging the Presidential Order to scrap Article 370 a long time back.
“I have withdrawn the petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Presidential Order to scrap Article 370 long ago,” he said.
Taking to Twitter, the IAS officer said that there is no going back, but only marching forward. Faesal was the lead petitioner challenging the abrogation of Article 370 nearly four years after it was implemented on August 5, 2019.
“370, for many Kashmiris like me, is a thing of the past. Jhelum and Ganga have merged in the great Indian Ocean for good. There is no going back. There is only marching forward,” Shah said in his tweet.
Faesal a 2010 batch IAS officer who topped the Civil Service Exam and posted in Jammu and Kashmir had resigned in January 2019 and floated his own party- Jammu Kashmir People’s Movement- with Shehla Rashid. Faesal’s unprecedented resignation from his own political outfit came in August 2020. The Centre rejected his resignation and he was reinstated in service.
The Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution bench will hear on July 11 a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories.
