Ameya Sharma* INTRODUCTION The status of the state of Jammu & Kashmir (“State of J&K”) has been amended to form two Union Territories (“UT”), leaving the former state bereft of its special provisions for governance. This was not a result of the ‘abrogation’ of Article 370 , but rather by way of its ‘de-operationalization’. The Union Government has been accused of engineering a devious mechanism of surpassing the many provisions of checks and balances that had been embedded