SC pushes clarity from Centre on J&K statehood restoration, stresses democracy is important

August 29: Supreme Court while asking the Centre to make its stand clear on the time frame and roadmap to restore the Statehood status of Jammu and Kashmir observes that “restoration of democracy is important”.

Central government informs Supreme Court decision to make Jammu and Kashmir a Union Territory was not permanent. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta says J&K would again be made a State when things will get normal. Five-judge Constitution bench of Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories.