Article 35-A might come up for hearing in the Supreme Court after August 30 as there is no mention of the petitions challenging the legislation in regular cause list of the apex court till August 30. A source told (KNO) the regular cause list of the apex court makes no mention of Article 35A for hearing. However, he said it might be taken up subsequently in the supplementary list.
Case related to Article 35A has not been published in the regular cases listed till Thursday which clears that the case wont come up for hearing till Aug 31. List of cases published in the supreme court has no mention of Article 35 A, a source said.So the case wont come up for hearing till Aug 31. Article 35A bars outsiders from buying immovable property in the state. A non-governmental organisation, We the Citizens, filed a petitioned in the apex Court in 2014 to abolish the law on the grounds that it was "unconstitutional".
There are apprehensions, amongst sections of Kashmiris, that if the law is repealed or diluted, outsiders would be settled in Jammu and Kashmir. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) – an amalgam of separatist outfits - has called for shutdown on August 25 and 26 against the attempts to scrap Article- 35A.