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International Business Times
International Business Times
Politics
Binitha Jacob

India's Top Court Upholds Government's Decision To End Special Status For Disputed Kashmir

As India steps up its efforts to assert control over Kashmir, communities living in remote woodlands say they've been banished from their ancestral homes (Credit: AFP / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA)

KEY POINTS

  • India's Supreme Court upheld the validity of the government's 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370
  • The court also ordered the country's election commission to hold local legislative polls in the region by next Sept. 30
  • Article 370 allowed residents of the erstwhile state to live under different laws from the rest of the country in matters relating to citizenship and property ownership

India's top court upheld a 2019 decision by the Narendra Modi government to strip the former state of Jammu and Kashmir of its special status.

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