{"id":32302,"date":"2017-11-21T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32302"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:46:13","slug":"delhi-hc-refuses-to-pass-order-on-farooqs-azad-kashmir-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32302","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC refuses to pass order on Farooq&#8217;s Azad Kashmir statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Nov. 21 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to pass any order on a petition seeking action against National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah over his remarks on Pakistan administrated Kashmir (AJK &amp; GB).<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar directed the petitioner to approach the ministry concerned, which will decide the issue on merits.<\/p>\n<p>The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by Delhi-based Maulana Ansar Raza, who claims to be a social activist, seeking \u201dimmediate investigation\u201d and \u201carrest\u201d of the Srinagar MP alleging that he has favoured Pakistan and insulted India.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah had on November 11 said that AJK and GB belonged to Pakistan and \u201cthis won&#8217;t change\u201d no matter how many wars India and Pakistan fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI tell them in plain terms \u2014 not only the people of India, but also to the world \u2014 that the part (of J&amp;K) which is with Pakistan (AJK &amp; GB) belongs to Pakistan and this side to India. This won&#8217;t change. Let them fight how many wars they want to. This won&#8217;t change,\u201d Abdullah had said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench disposed of Raza&#8217;s plea, saying it was not expressing any opinion on the petition and asked the Centre to take an independent view on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that the petition has been filed without making any representation before the authorities concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The plea had alleged that Abdullah has been making \u201csuch controversial remarks and statements by which the nation and its people feel ashamed of such persons being Indian citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Nov. 21 (TNS):\u00a0The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to pass any order on a petition seeking action against National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah over his remarks on Pakistan administrated Kashmir (AJK &amp; GB). A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar directed the petitioner to approach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[172,733],"class_list":["post-32302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-new-dehli","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32305,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302\/revisions\/32305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}