“Today, I was placed under house arrest alongside other senior PDP leaders. This follows a crackdown at midnight in which dozens of my party members were unlawfully detained in police stations. Mehbooba Mufti tweeted that the Indian government’s claims of normalcy to the Supreme Court were exposed by their paranoid actions.

“Across Srinagar, enormous billboards urging Kashmiris to ‘celebrate’ the illegal repeal of Article 370 have been erected. In contrast, brute force is used to suffocate the genuine sentiment of the people. She added, “I hope the Honourable Supreme Court takes note of these developments now that Article 370 is up for hearing.”

PDP refused authorization to conduct event.

The Srinagar administration has denied the PDP permission to hold an event on the fourth anniversary of the repeal of Article 370, according to the PDP.

Article 370, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was repealed by the Centre on 5 August 2019 and the state was divided into the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Mufti asserted on Friday that party leaders were being detained in advance of the fourth anniversary of the repeal of Article 370.

“Why are PDP leaders being detained by @JmuKmrPolice on the eve of the 5th of August? In this video, Arif Laigroo has been taken by the police,” Mehbooba tweeted as she uploaded a video purportedly showing a PDP leader being taken away in a police vehicle.

The PDP had requested permission to conduct a seminar or public discussion on Saturday regarding the repeal of Articles 370 and 35A in preparation for the event.

The PDP had previously stated that it had invited like-minded Kashmiri parties to the event, which was to be held at Sher-e-Kashmir Park near the PDP’s headquarters.

“At approximately 5 p.m. on August 4, 2023, our representative was informed that the requested permission was denied without explanation,” a PDP spokesman said.

He stated that while the PDP was denied permission, the BJP was granted permission to “celebrate” the repeal of the two articles by holding a rally from Nehru Park to the SKICC and a rally at Jawahar Nagar Park.

“We strongly condemn the administration’s dual and dubious approach, and this reaffirms our position that the administration and country are run not according to rules or the constitution, but by the BJP’s political agenda,” the spokesman said.

Mehbooba also claimed on Twitter that the BJP government has given the “tamasha” of celebrating the “illegal” abrogation of Article 370 a free hand in order to “mislead” the public opinion in the country.

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She stated, “This merely exposes the facade of normalcy, which is a fabrication to justify their illegal actions.”

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Beginning on Wednesday, a five-judge constitution committee led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud will conduct daily hearings.

The bench, which also consists of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant, set the deadline for written submissions and convenience compilations as July 27 on July 11.

The five-judge bench stated that hearings will be conducted on a daily basis, except on Mondays and Fridays, which are days when the supreme court hears diverse cases. On these days, only new petitions for admission hearings are considered; regular matters are not heard.

It appointed two solicitors, one from the petitioners’ side and one from the government’s side, to prepare a convenience compilation and file it by July 27, and made it plain that no documents will be accepted after that date. A convenience note provides the court with an overview of the entire case so that it can swiftly comprehend the facts.

It had stated that the Centre’s affidavit regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir after the 5 August 2019 notification repealing Article 370 would have no consequence on the constitutional issue to be decided by the five-judge bench.

On that day, the former state of Jammu and Kashmir was divested of its special status and split into two union territories.

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Several petitions challenging the repeal of Article 370 and the 2019 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which divided the former state into Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, were referred to a Constitution tribunal in 2019.

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