“Article 370 is a thing of the past. There is no going back. There is only moving forward,” said Shah Faesal, an IAS officer, just days ahead of a scheduled hearing of a batch of pleas related to the abrogation of Article 370 before a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court. Now, who is Shah Faesal, and why has his statement made news? Faesal, a 2010-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was detained for more than a year after the provisions of Article 370 were abrogated, and the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into Union territories in August 2019. He resigned from service and launched the Jammu Kashmir People’s Movement, a political entity, in January 2019. The government, however, did not accept his resignation, and Faesal, who is also a doctor, was subsequently posted to the Union Ministry of Culture. Faesal filed a petition in the Supreme Court in 2019, challenging the Centre’s decision to scrap Article 370. In April 2022, the government accepted Faesal’s application to withdraw his resignation from service and reinstated him. In the same month, Faesal filed an application in the court seeking the deletion of his name from the list of seven petitioners who had challenged the scrapping of Article 370. Nearly four years after the government abrogated Article 370, which bestowed a special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud will take up a batch of pleas challenging the decision for a hearing on July 11. The Supreme Court will also take the decision on the withdrawal of the petition by IAS officer Shah Faesal. That’s it for this report for more such news and updates subscribe To HW News English.
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