SC to hear intervention application on Art 35 A

JAMMU:The Supreme Court (SC) has agreed to hear an intervention application in the matter dealing with the constitutional validity of Article 35 A filed by ‘Ikk Jutt Jammu’, a Jammubased registered trust.

“In an intervention application challenging constitutional validity of Article 35 A, the Supreme Court, after hearing an urgent mention by advocates Chandan Sharma and Sumir R Sharma, agreed to post the matter for the next week along with the main matter,” said Ikk Jutt Jammu chairman and high court advocate Ankur Sharma.

“Ikk Jutt Jammu is representing Jammu people’s point of view. It has sought abrogation of Article 35 A primarily on the plea that the article apart from being unconstitutional, provides for the creation of a theological state on the secular territory of India,” added Sharma. It may be stated here that Article 35 A was grossly discriminatory against the daughters of the state, married to non-permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir.

If a woman from J&K marries a non-permanent resident (man from other state), her husband and children will not get certificate of a permanent resident but if a man from the state marries a woman from the other state, she and her children automatically become citizens of the state and get all the privileges under Article 35 A.