The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre to file an affidavit responding to a challenge to the delimitation exercise undertaken in Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the State.
However, the court did not accept an oral plea made by petitioners to stay the tabling of the final draft report of the Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission in Parliament.
“Can we restrain them from tabling it in the Parliament? If that is so, why did you take two years to challenge the delimitation notification?” a Bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul asked the petitioners, Haji Abdul Gani Khan and Mohammad Ayub Mattoo, represented by senior advocate Ravi Shankar Jandhyala and advocates Sriram Parakkat and M.S. Vishnu Shankar.
