Supreme Court refuses to issue any order on Jammu and Kashmir on September 16

New Delhi, September 5, 2019, Thursday

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to respond immediately to a petition challenging the various sanctions imposed by the Central Government on August 5 while canceling the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

The petitioner argued that the one-month sanctions are still in place and journalists should not be allowed to go there either.

The bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogo, told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that many newspapers appeared in Jammu and Kashmir. However, Kashmir Times editors have decided not to reveal this daily themselves. Anuradha Bhasin, acting editor of the Kashmir Times, had requested that it be a month after repealing Article 370 but journalists are still not coming to Dev.

Attorney General K Venugopal on behalf of the Center informed the court that sanctions are being gradually relaxed and 80 percent of landline phones have also been turned on.

More than seven million people have been rushed to various hospitals and over four thousand have undergone minor surgeries. That is, the details presented in the court are bogus and obsolete.