Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court that the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 does not prohibit the Central Government from inducting a Delimitation Commission . The 2019 Act provides for two alternative ways to carry out the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, according to Mehta .
New Delhi: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 does not prohibit the Central Government from inducting a Delimitation Commission.The 2019 Act provides for two alternative ways to carry out delimitation of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, according to Mehta, according to a bench of Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka, who reserved their decision on Thursday.The old regime's system was supposed to end in 1995.The government's plan was also to immediately give voice to the newly formed Union Territory, which was...
According to Mehta, the reorganisation under section 59 gave the commission more sense, and it claimed that the procedure for delimitation in the UT of J&K, which included UTs of the National Capital Region, and Pondicherry, had been carried out in violation of the Constitutional scheme and legislation, particularly under section 63 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.The plea had also called for a declaration that the delimitation process occurred in the form