J&K High Court Bar Association removes paragraph on ‘Kashmir dispute’ from its constitution
The Srinagar district magistrate had in 2020 claimed that the text was ‘not in consonance with the Constitution of India’.
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The Kashmir chapter of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association has amended its constitution to remove a paragraph that called for “working towards a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute”, reported The Hindu on Sunday.
The association now concerns itself only with promoting “the rights and interests of the legal profession in general and of the members of the Association in particular”, according to the newspaper. The lawyers’ body has about 3,000 members.
In 2020, the Srinagar district magistrate had asked for an explanation of the now-removed text, which was included in a section about the association’s objectives. It stated that the bar “will find ways and means and take steps for resolving the issues concerning the public at large including the larger issue of a peaceful settlement of Kashmir dispute”.
The magistrate claimed that the paragraph was “not in consonance with the Constitution of India, whereby J&K is an integral part of the country and not a dispute”.
In a letter on Friday, the bar association said: “Some changes in the constitution of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Kashmir, also became necessary [after the Supreme Court judgement on Article 370 provisions on December 23, 2023] and, accordingly, were brought about.”
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