Abrogation of Article 370 led to unprecedented era of peace, prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir, Centre tells Supreme Court

The Centre, a day before a Constitution Bench is scheduled to hear a series of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370, filed a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court claiming that Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing an “unprecedented era of peace, progress and prosperity”

The Centre on July 10 filed a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court claiming that Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing an “unprecedented era of peace, progress and prosperity” after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

The affidavit has been filed a day before a Constitution Bench is scheduled to hear a series of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370, which deprived Jammu and Kashmir of its special privileges and led to the bifurcation of the State in 2019.

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“Life has returned to normalcy in the region after over three decades of turmoil,” the Home Ministry announced in the 20-page affidavit.

The Ministry said the “street violence”, which was engineered by terrorists and secessionist networks, had become a “thing of the past”.

Organised stone-pelting incidents, linked to the terrorism-separatist agenda, had come down from 1,767 in 2018 to zero in 2023, the Centre said.

Bandhs and hartals had also become a distant memory. “Resolute anti-terror actions” had dismantled the “terror eco-system” which led to a significant drop in terror recruitment from 199 in 2018 to 12 in 2023 till date, the Home Ministry said.