Set Norms To Avoid Jammu & Kashmir Repeat, Ghulam Nabi Azad to Supreme Court economictimes.indiatimes.com

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has urged the Supreme Court to frame norms to ensure that J&K-type lockdown does not occur again in the future. “The lives of seven million people have been destroyed,” Kapil Sibal, who is representing Azad, told a bench led by Justice NV Ramana on Thursday. “This court must lay down principles to ensure that this is never repeated,” he said. He argued that terrorism has been there for the last 20 years and therefore it cannot be a reason to deny fundamental rights to an entire state, he said. The court cannot decide the fundamental rights of citizens on the touchstone of state interest alone