[Reader-list] Bill to disqualify Kashmiri women from remaining state subjects

[A.K. Malik]

Sonia Jee,
              Does the bill not go against the Basic Constitutional provision of Equality under Art 14 and can't it be challenged by some NGO on infringement of equality enshrined under the Constitution?It seems reservation and other things being talked about Women's welfare are all farce.Basic reality is women are still being treated as Second Class citizens and all political parties coolly acquiesce to it.
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Wed, 3/10/10, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Bill to disqualify Kashmiri women from remaining state subjects
> To: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 10:52 AM
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> 
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> 
> Rising Kashmir News
> Jammu, March 8: A Bill moved by PDP legislator Murtaza
> Ahmad Khan to provide
> for disqualification from being Permanent Resident (PR) of
> the State on
> marriage of a female resident with a non-permanent resident
> was allowed in
> the House unopposed.
> 
> 
> The bill (LC Private Members Bill No 04 of 2010) moved by
> Khan was allowed
> unopposed in the House. The Bill  favours
> disqualification from being
> Permanent Resident of the State on marriage of a female
> permanent resident
> with a non-permanent resident and on termination of
> marriage of a
> non-resident female with a permanent resident husband.
> 
> The Bill was passed by the Legislative Assembly in March
> 2004. However,
> Congress, which was then the coalition partner of
> PDP-Congress ruling
> alliance voted against the bill in Legislative Assembly.
> The bill was
> rejected by the House.
> 
>  NC had then supported the Bill but Congress was strongly
> opposed.
> 
> The PDP legislator Murtaza Khan also moved a Bill (LC
> Private Members Bill
> No 01 of 2010)   to provide for effective
> protection of women from domestic
> violence and for matters connected therewith was rejected
> by the House.
> 
> Earlier, the government had said that it will move a bill
> on Domestic
> Violence in the Assembly.
> 
> ''To empower the Jammu and Kashmir women so that they can
> fight for their
> rights, the government is going to move a bill on Domestic
> Violence in the
> ongoing session,'' Sakina Ittoo, Minister for Social
> Welfare had said.
> 
> She had said that the bill will soon be tabled in the
> Legislative Assembly.
> ³We are sure that the government will give green signal
> for its
> implementation in the state.''
> 
> Sakina had said the complaints of domestic violence are
> rising in the state.
> 
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