The Supreme Court will hear the petitions related to the abolition of Article 370 of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Supreme Court will hear the petitions related to the abolition of Article 370 of Jammu and Kashmir.
Article 370: A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud of the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed for daily hearing from August 2 on several petitions related to abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. These petitions will be heard on a day-to-day basis except on Mondays and Fridays. The court has also appointed two lawyers to collect all the papers related to the case.
The Supreme Court on August 5, 2019 revoked the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, the decision of the Central Government to divide the state into two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Will hear 23 writ petitions challenging However, IAS officer Shah Faesal and activist Shehla Rashid do not want to go ahead with their petitions against the abrogation of Article 370 and want their names removed from the court’s records. The court has accepted the request to remove his name and granted permission.
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During the hearing, the Supreme Court made it clear that it will not hear the fresh affidavit filed by the Center regarding the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Ahead of the hearing, the central government on Monday filed an affidavit defending its decision to abrogate Article 370, saying it had brought peace to the region. The bench said it would hear only constitutional issues.
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Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran told the court that IAS officer Shah Faesal and former student activist Shehla Rasheed had withdrawn their petitions related to the matter from the Supreme Court. CJI Chandrachud directed the Registry to remove the names of the two from the list of petitioners. Under Article 370, the people of Jammu and Kashmir were given special rights and privileges from 1954 to 2019 as per the Instrument of Accession. Subsequently, the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganization) Act of 2019 came into force, bifurcating the erstwhile state into the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
