New Dehli – Former Indian Military Commanders challenge PM Modi’s move onOccupied Kashmir in Supreme Court of India.
Indian retired military officers on Saturday moved the Supreme Court ofIndia challenging the Presidential decree changing the special status ofOccupied Kashmir by abrogating Article 370 and 35A by Modi’s BJPgovernment, Indian Media reported.
As per details, petitioners challenged the Jammu and KashmirReorganizataion Bill and expressed that scrapping the special status of thevalley is constitutionally invalid.
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Six petitioners, including former Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak and RetiredMajor General Ashok Mehta, have moved the Supreme Court challenging the J&KReorganisation Bill & the abrogation of Article 370. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1162735575025233921 … linkANI✔@ANI
Five petitioners, including former Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak and RetiredMajor General Ashok Mehta, have moved the Supreme Court challenging the J&KReorganisation Bill & the abrogation of Article 370.[image: View image on Twitter]link435 link7:44 PM – Aug 17, 2019 linkTwitter Ads info and privacy link
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The petitioners include former Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak, Retired MajorGeneral Ashok Mehta, former IAS officers Hindal Haidar Tyabji, AmitabhaPande and Gopal Pillai, and former member of the Home Ministry’s Group ofInterlocutors for J&K Radha Kumar. The petition has been drawn by advocatesArjun Krishnan, Kaustubh Singh and Rajalakshmi Singh and settled by SeniorAdvocate Prashanto Sen.
Terming the presidential order on abrogation of Article 370 asconstitutionally invalid, the petition states that a presidential orderunder “Article 370(3) of the Constitution requires the Constituent Assemblyof Jammu and Kashmir to recommend a presidential notification under Article370(3) declaring that Article 370 shall cease to be operative”.
“The Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly no longer exists and thus couldnot have made a recommendation to that effect,” the petition states.