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A map of the disputed Kashmir region showing the areas under Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese administration. On 5 August 2019, the government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian constitution to Jammu and Kashmir—a region administered by India as a state which consists of the larger part of Kashmir which has been the subject of dispute ...
Former prince regent and Congress leader Karan Singh opined that an integral review of Article 370 was overdue and, it need to be worked on jointly with the State of Jammu and Kashmir. [90] However, in October 2015, the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir ruled that the Article 370 cannot be "abrogated, repealed or even amended." It explained that ...
The 2019–2021 Jammu and Kashmir lockdown was a lockdown and communications blackout that had been imposed throughout the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir following the revocation of Article 370 (August 2019) which lasted until February 2021, with the goal of preemptively curbing unrest, violence and protests. Thousands of civilians ...
The second report covered the period August 2020– January 2021 and stated that "most of the violations described in the forum's first report... remain even 18 months after the imposition of a lockdown on Jammu and Kashmir". [121] [122] The third report was published in August 2021, marking the completion of two years of changes in the state.
In August 2019, the Government of India abrogated Article 370, revoking the state's special status and reorganizing it into two separate union territories. Article 371A: Special provisions for Nagaland, safeguarding its religious and social practices, customary laws, and administration of civil and criminal justice.
In 2019, Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which gave special status to the disputed Jammu and Kashmir, was abrogated [23] and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act was passed to reconstitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir into union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh with effect from 31 October 2019. [24]
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Resolution to repeal Article 370 was passed by both the houses of the Parliament of India in August 2019. At the same time, a reorganization act was also passed, which would reconstitute the state into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, [29] while Article 35A was also abolished through suspension of the Presidential Order of ...