GNS Jammu; Mr. Ravinder Sharma MLC & Spokesman JKPCC has said that no bill seeking amendment to Section 3 and Section 5 of J&K Constitution can be introduced or moved, as per provision of the state constitution. Referring to a news item with regard to a private bill moved by a PDP legislator in the assembly seeking amendment/deletion of Section 3 of the state constitution which describes the relationship of the state with Union of India stating therein “the state of Jammu & Kashmir is and shall be an integral part of the Union of India”. Mr. Sharma said that as per provision of the Section 147 of the state constitution, no such bill can be moved or introduced, which reads, “provided further that no bill or amendment seeking to make any change in…… b) the provisions of Section 3 & Section 5, …….., shall be introduced or moved in either house of the legislature”. In view of the clear legal position, the move is ill-conceived.
When the holy Quran was placed before Mohammed Maqbool Butt on the morning of February 11, 1984, he knew that death awaited him in the phansi kothi a few yards away. A high voltage bulb burning outside the grated doors of his solitary cell in the death row was indicative of the outside darkness. If he had had any hopes of living awhile yet, they were dashed by the presence of the” prison doctors. Jail superintendent, A.B. Shukla/had paid Butt a visit in the middle of the previous night. Shukla chatted with him for a long time but cautiously avoided any talk about the execution. “I will see you on Monday”, Butt’s counsel on record, the sallow-complexioned R.C. Pathak, had told him during a brief interview they were allowed on the evening of February 10. In answer, the condemned Kashmir Liberation Front leader, who was awarded the death sentence of the murder of a CID officer in 1966, had meaningfully remarked: “Do you think they will permit us a second meeting?” He was right! Butt was n...
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