INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Citing the surgical necessity of having to amputate a limb to save life, the Union government on Thursday told the Supreme Court
that removal of Article 370 to scrap special status of Jammu and Kashmir had become imperative to preserve integrity of the nation and for
uniform application of the Indian Constitution to all states."By general law, the life and limbs of every person must be protected.In case
of the state into two UTs
The top law officer said the government action achieved a delicate balance between preserving the nation and Constitution on the one hand
and safeguarding national interest on the other.A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, B R
The means should also be consistent with the end," said the bench, a remark that was interpreted as suggesting that while the change in the
status of J-K may have led to marked improvement in law and order situation in the terror-scarred state, the Centre needed to prove that it
adhered to the constitutional procedures in letter and spirit.Outlining contours of his arguments that he would advance after Solicitor
General Tushar Mehta had taken the court through the historical processes for complete integration of J-K with India, the AG said the
President had the powers, as seen on several occasions in the past when orders were issued for applying provisions of the Constitution to
J-K, to strip the state of its special status even when its assembly had been dissolved by imposition of Article 356
to deal with matters relating to border states may not be as in case of general rung of reorganisation of states or imposition of
matters that can be legitimately taken into account for paving the paths for due course rearrangement
No person can have a vested right in favour of a perennial state of unrest and all instruments of law which have not subserved peace and
