Jammu and Kashmir govt revokes suspension of lecturer who appeared before SC in Article 370 case
government employees. ALSO READ: Article 370: Ready for elections in Jammu & Kashmir 'anytime', Centre tells SC Bhat had been removed from his place of posting in Srinagar a day after he argued a case related to the abrogation of Article 370 before the Supreme Court.
He was attached to the office of Director School Education, Jammu while a senior officer was appointed as an inquiry officer to conduct an in-depth inquiry into his conduct. Days later, the Supreme Court had asked Attorney General R Venkataramani and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to look into the issue of Bhat's suspension.
“This should not happen. Someone arguing before this court gets suspended…" the bench had said after senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Rajeev Dhavan told the five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud about Bhat's suspension.
The Court is currently hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the scrapping of Article 370 that granted special status to the erstwhile state. For the uninitiated, the central government abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories in August 2019.
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