Article 370 Hearing- Live Updates

Advocate Kapil Sibal, representing petitioners, said, “If you have 5,000 people in house arrest and withs section 144 imposed there cannot be any bandh, so let us not get into this.

To which, Chief Justice of India Chandrachud said, “What he is saying is that the roadmap to full statehood will take some time. UT is not a permanent feature and there cannot be a timeline but these are the steps they are taking, but we know these facts cannot be an answer to the constitutional question.”

Kapil Sibal: Drugs issue that is plaguing J&K is enormous and there is an enormous rate of unemployment  in the UT.

Correct people are under house arrest’ in J&K: Mehta

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Bench that “Union Territory is a temporary phenomenon and we need to infuse certain things so that the state becomes a state in the real sense.”

“I am unable to give an exact timeframe for when this will be completed,” he added.

“Projects have increased in Jammu and Kashmir and this has been gaining a boost and youth are getting employed,” Mehta said.

The Centre further told the Bench that since 2018, the Valley has recorded 1767 stone pelting incidents. “In 2023 it’s nil now,” S-G Mehta said.

He further told the Supreme Court that “organised bandhs” in 2018 stood at 52 and today it is “nil”.

S-G Tushar Mehta told the Bench that terrorist activities have decreased in Jammu and Kashmir by 45.2 per cent post-2019. He said that infiltration has been reduced by 90.2 per cent.

Tushar Mehta told the Bench that the second polls in J&K would be that of local civic bodies.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta highlighted that the process of hill development in J&K is underway and that “it will be held soon”.

“For kargil and leh where hill development will be held,” he said.

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