The Supreme Court on December 11 held that the declaration of State emergency under Article 356 and the subsequent actions of the President should have a “reasonable nexus”.
If so, the petitioners could question whether the object of the President, while declaring State emergency on the ground of failure of constitutional machinery in Jammu and Kashmir in December 2018, was to ultimately abrogate the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcate the full-fledged State to two union territories.