Petitions on Jammu Kashmir Statehood Restoration, Nomination of MLAs Listed Tomorrow

AhmadJunaidJ&KAugust 13, 2025373 Views




SRINAGAR: Two separate petitions — one seeking the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, and another challenging the nomination of five MLAs — are listed for hearing in the Supreme Court and the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, respectively, on Thursday.

The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear pleas seeking restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood. “The case is listed at serial number 9 before the bench headed by the Chief Justice of India,” advocate Soayib Quershi told KNO.

Two separate petitions — one filed by Zahoor Ahmad Bhat (lawyer and academician) and Khursheed Ahmad Malik (socio-political activist) and another by Irfan Hafiz Lone (MLA Wagoora-Kreeri) — are listed for hearing before the CJI-led bench.

Meanwhile, the petition challenging the nomination of five MLAs is also listed for hearing before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court tomorrow. The Ministry of Home Affairs has informed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that the nomination of five MLAs of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly falls outside the purview of the elected government and is to be made by the Lieutenant Governor without the aid and advice of the council of ministers.

“Sections 15, 15A and 15B all recognise the power and authority of the Lieutenant Governor to make a nomination to the Legislative Assembly. Accordingly, there can be no manner of doubt that it is the Lieutenant Governor who has to exercise this statutory duty in his discretion, as a statutory functionary and not as an extension of the government, thus, without aid and advice,” reads the affidavit filed by the MHA through Vishal Sharma, Deputy Solicitor General of India.

While Section 15 of the Reorganisation Act empowers the Lieutenant Governor to nominate two women to the Assembly if he feels that they are not adequately represented, Sections 15A and 15B confer upon him the authority to nominate two Kashmiri migrants and one Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) refugee, respectively. (KNO)

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