{"id":31759,"date":"2025-08-14T06:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=31759"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:51:54","slug":"supreme-court-seeks-centres-response-on-plea-for-restoring-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/supreme-court-seeks-centres-response-on-plea-for-restoring-statehood\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Seeks Centre\u2019s Response On Plea For Restoring Statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 14: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.<br \/>\nA bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran also took note of the submissions of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, that there were \u201cseveral considerations which go into the decision-making process\u201d.It listed the plea, filed by academician Zahoor Ahmad Bhat and socio-political activist Ahmad Malik, for hearing after eight weeks.<br \/>\n\u201cYou cannot ignore what happened in Pahalgam\u2026 It is for Parliament and the Executive to take a decision,\u201d the CJI said when senior lawyer Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for Bhat, sought an early hearing.<br \/>\nOn December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the revocation of Article 370, which accorded a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, even as it ordered that assembly elections be held in the union territory by September 2024 and its statehood be restored \u201cat the earliest\u201d.<br \/>\nLast year, a plea was filed in the top court seeking directions to the Centre for the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir within two months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31760\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31760\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court Seeks Centre\u2019s Response On Plea For Restoring Statehood\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-1024x388.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-768x291.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-549x208.jpg 549w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-470x178.jpg 470w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-233x88.jpg 233w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-230x87.jpg 230w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-360x136.jpg 360w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n-100x38.jpg 100w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534224892_1329163735299265_2748667352614566918_n.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court Seeks Centre\u2019s Response On Plea For Restoring Statehood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 14: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. 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