“Ends cannot justify means,” the Chief Justice of India told the Union government on Thursday, as the Centre commenced defending the abrogation of Article 370 on what was the 10th of the hearing of the Article 370 matter.
During the hearings, the Solicitor General of India spoke about the history of the formation of states and argued more than 60 states of India had their own constitution while many others had not signed the treaty of merger with India. “The argument that Jammu Kashmir was the only state to do so is untrue,” the solicitor general of India argued.
Pertinently, the Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta spoke in detail about the history of Jammu Kashmir, which the five bench constitutional bench heard patiently, however, at the end the Judges remarked that they were only listening to the historical part without any questions.
During this, the Chief Justice of India said, “We cannot postulate a situation where ends justify the means. Means also have to be consistent with the ends.”
In their arguments that continued for the first nine days, the petitioners told the court that the means adopted by the Centre to abrogate Article 370 was flawed.