SRINAGAR: As the Supreme Court of India is all set to hear a batch of pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, two main petitioners have dropped out of the case. IAS officer Shah Faesal and activist Shehla Rashid Shora filed an application for deleting their names from the list of petitioners, while the omission was allowed by the Supreme Court on Tuesday evening.
Rashid and Faesal were among the 23 petitioners who had moved to the Supreme Court in 2022, challenging the center government’s move of scrapping special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
A few days earlier clearing his stance on Article 370 , Faesal in a tweet said, “370, for many Kashmiris like me, is a thing of the past.”
“370, for many Kashmiris like me, is a thing of the past. Jhelum and Ganga have merged in the great Indian Ocean for good. There is no going back. There is only marching forward,” he tweeted recently.
370, for many Kashmiris like me, is a thing of the past.
Jhelum and Ganga have merged in the great Indian Ocean for good.
There is no going back. There is only marching forward. pic.twitter.com/3cgXRWSxW0
— Shah Faesal (@shahfaesal) July 4, 2023
Meanwhile, a Constitution Bench of apex court headed by CJI DY Chandrachud will take up the matter regarding the contentious abrogation of the law which took away Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and divided the erstwhile state into two union territories from August 2.
The bench, also comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant, fixed July 27 as the deadline for filing of written submissions and convenience compilations by different parties.
