In W.P. C No.
09082019 states that the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, will companye into effect from 31 st October, 2019, and that there shall be a new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Also on 0508 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019, was introduced in the Rajya Sabha, and passed.
This meant that the people of Kashmir were plunged into a companymunication blackhole and an information blackout.
No formal orders under which such action was taken by the Respondents were companymunicated to the affected population, including the residents of the Kashmir Valley.
1164 of 2019 and I.A number 157139 in I.A. number 139555 of 2019 in W.P. C No.
So far as prayers 2 and 3 of the writ petition are companycerned, the State as well as, the Union of India will respond within two weeks hence.
1031 of 2019 was filed on 10082019 under Article 32 of the Constitution of India by the Executive Editor of the newspaper Kashmir Times, which publishes two editions daily, one from Jammu and another from Srinagar.
The English newspaper, Kashmir Times, was founded in 1954 as a news weekly.
On 06082019, the said Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha.
In fact, when this Court by order dated 16.10.2019 asked them to produce the orders, the RespondentState placed on record only sample orders, citing difficulty in producing the numerous orders which were being withdrawn and modified on a daytoday basis.
The Presidents assent was given to the Bill on 09082019.
1013 of 2019 fiveJudge Bench and was later detagged.
The actions of the respondents have had a debilitating and crippling effect on newsgathering, reporting, publication, circulation and information dissemination, and have also resulted in freezing of web portals and news websites.
The RespondentState also claimed that the plea to produce orders by the Petitioners was an expansion of the scope of the present petitions.
It was later companyverted to a daily newspaper in 1962 and has regularly been in print and circulation ever since.
The Gazette Notification, dt.
At the same time, on 0508 2019, the Constitution Application to Jammu and Kashmir order, 2019, C.O. 272 was published in The Gazette of India, vide which under the powers vested by Article 370 1 of the Constitution of India, Article 367 4 was added to the Constitution.
From the morning of 05082019, with a heavy military presence, barricades and severance of all companymunication links, the state of Jammu and Kashmir was placed under de facto curfew.
Kashmir Times is a widely read English newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir, and also has significant readership in the neighbouring States of Punjab, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh.
Further, production of all orders by way of which companymunication has been blocked in State of Jammu and Kashmir has also been sought.
At the same time, while the numberavailability of orders was number denied by the RespondentState, they did number produce the said orders.
All of this was carried out while the State of Jammu and Kashmir was in a lockdown and silenced through a companymunication shutdown.
When W.P. C No.
1031 of 2019, a prayer has been made to issue a writ of mandamus or any other writ directing Respondent Nos.
1031 of 2019, was listed on 16.08.2019, the matter was ordered to be tagged along with W.P. C No.
1 and 2 to produce all orders by which movement of all persons has been restricted since 04.08.2019.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS The Petitioner in W.P. C No.
On 04082019, sometime during the day, mobile phone networks, internet services, and landline phones were all discontinued in the Kashmir valley and in some districts of Jammu and Ladakh.
The Petitioners and Intervenors claim that the orders were number available, which is why they companyld number place them on record.
1031 of 2019 has filed the petition basing her companytention on the following factual premise, as averred Writ Petition Civil No.
