Kashmir Bar defers polls after govt notice
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Srinagar Justice of the Peace seeks clarification on Bar’s structure that sees J&K as ‘a dispute standing for a peaceful settlement’
The Kashmir High Court Bar Association, comprising over 1200 attorneys of the Valley, on Tuesday deferred elections, a day after the Srinagar Justice of the Peace sought a clarification on the Bar’s structure that sees J&K as “a dispute standing for a peaceful settlement”.
“We deliberated upon the notice of the government on Tuesday. A unanimous decision came to the fore in favour of deferment of elections. No new date for polls has been fixed yet”, Mudasir Gulzar Vakil, secretary of the Election Commission of the affiliation, instructed The Puucho.
The Justice of the Peace had requested the physique “to clear its stand on Kashmir as a disputed region between India and Pakistan or an integral part of the country”.
The polls, which had been earlier deferred in October because of the COVID-19 pandemic, was to happen from November 10 in a phased method for the highest posts of the officer-bearers.
The KHCBA is a really influential civil society physique of the Valley that had challenged the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A within the Supreme Court in 2019.
KHCBA president Mian Qayoom was amongst many different attorneys arrested within the crackdown launched forward of the August 5 choice to revoke J&K’s particular. He was launched in July final.
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