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Article 35A linked for Jammu and Kashmir's special status hearing in SC on 30 Oct
Petitions in Supreme Court: Article 35A of India Constitution for Jammu and Kashmir against the spirit of India
Since Jammu and Kashmir is a bit of uncertainty over the challenge to Article 35A, a constitutional provision that bars outsiders from owning property in Jammu and Kashmir, will be heard by the Supreme Court on 30 October 2017.
Four petitions demanding the scrapping of the article will be taken up by a bench headed by the India’s Chief Justice Dipak Misra
Article 35A is considered fundamental to the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The article 35A was added to Article 370, which grants Jammu and Kashmir its autonomous status.
Article 35A, of the Constitution, defines permanent residents of the state and bars non-residents of Jammu and Kashmir from buying immovable property under state subject law.
Article 35A also confers special rights and privileges in jobs and acquiring property to the permanent resident of the state.
Petitions say the provision is against the spirit of oneness of India and discriminates against citizens from other states and also the article discriminates against women of the state who lose their right to own property in the state if they marry a non-resident.
