Day: August 11, 2021

Qamar Ali Akhoon, Asgar Ali Karbalai & Sajjad Hussain, Ladakh Residents move SC challenging dilution of Article 370

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Qamar Ali Akhoon, Asgar Ali Karbalai & Sajjad Hussain, Ladakh Residents move SC challenging dilution of Article 370

The plea says that the Centre’s move to read down Article 370 imposes a ‘dictatorial regime’ wherein the entire democratic process has been annulled and the people have been left at the mercy of administrators. Two political leaders and a journalist from Ladakh have moved the Supreme Court seeking impleadment in a petition challenging the 2019 decision of the Union government to read down Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcate the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The…

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Only two people from outside J&K have managed to purchase properties in the UT since 370 abrogation: MHA

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Only two people from outside J&K have managed to purchase properties in the UT since 370 abrogation - MHA

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed the Lok Sabha that there are only two people who have purchased properties in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370, in which the former state’s special status was removed, thus making way for people from other states to buy land. The MHA has said in a written reply in Parliament that there are only two people who have purchased properties in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 2.5 years since the Centre’s action. As per the information provided by…

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