Karra arrives in Delhi, to be present as ‘Amicus curiae‘
Srinagar: Supreme Court will hear the petition on Article 35-A on Monday after the hearing was postponed due to Diwali.
Senior Congress Leader Tariq Hameed Karra has arrived in New Delhi to appear in Supreme Court in connection with petition challenging 35-A of Jammu and Kashmir constitution.
Karra will be there as ‘amicus curiae’ and will be represented by his legal counsel, however senior congress leader himself will be present in the court.
Karra had approached Supreme Court and requested the Apex court that he should be heard in defence of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
The recent petitions
The petition 722/2014, has been filed by a non-governmental organization called ‘We the Citizens’ in 2014. In the petition, the NGO wants to strike down the article as they believe that the President has no powers to insert an Article in the constitution.
In 2015, West Pakistan Refugees filed a petition against the article on the grounds that it creates a ‘privileged’ class of permanent residents who are entitled to various rights.
Dr. Charu Wali Khanna and Seema Razadan’s petition is the latest which challenges the article. Their petition says that the article promotes ‘gender bias and discrimination.
It’s pertinent to mention that Khanna has only ‘anecdotal proof’ that she is a state subject, a permanent resident of the state, reported the Indian Express. Khannas’s anecdotal proof says that her ancestors left Kashmir during the Afghan rule.
(With inputs from KNS)
