{"id":15867,"date":"2025-08-06T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15867"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:04:01","slug":"indias-sc-to-hear-iiojk-statehood-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15867","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s SC to hear IIOJK statehood plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India&#8217;s top court will hear a plea for the restoration of Kashmir&#8217;s federal statehood later this week, court officials said Tuesday, as the region marked six years under direct rule from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, scheduled for August 8 in the Supreme Court, follows an application filed by two residents of the disputed territory, where a separatist insurgency has raged for years.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Hindu nationalist government in August 2019 revoked IIOJK limited autonomy and brought it directly under federal control.<\/p>\n<p>The move was accompanied by mass arrests and a communications blackout that ran for months as India bolstered its armed forces in the region to contain protests.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top court will hear a plea for the restoration of Kashmir&#8217;s federal statehood later this week, court officials said Tuesday, as the region marked six years under direct rule from New Delhi. The hearing, scheduled for August 8 in the Supreme Court, follows an application filed by two residents of the disputed territory, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}