The Supreme Court on Friday mentioned it can hear petitions difficult the modifications made in Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir in addition to the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh within the former state. listening to on the reorganization. After Dussehra vacation.
The matter was talked about earlier than a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit. “We will definitely list it,” the CJI instructed the counsel, including that it is a crucial constitutional matter and is pending for a very long time. The bench mentioned it might be thought of when the courtroom reopens after the Dussehra vacation. The apex courtroom might be on Dussehra vacation from October 3 and can reopen on October 10.
The petitions difficult the central authorities’s August 2019 resolution final got here to the Supreme Court on March 2, 2020, when a five-judge bench headed by Justice NV Ramana rejected the plea to refer the petitions to a bigger bench. . The courtroom, nonetheless, made it clear that its order was “limited to the preliminary issue of whether the matter should be referred to a larger Bench” and “has not considered any issue on the merits of the dispute”.
The different members of the bench have been Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai and Surya Kant. Justice Reddy retired in January this yr whereas Justice Ramana retired because the Chief Justice of India final month.
Consequently, the bench will now need to be reconstituted. There are 23 petitions pending within the courtroom. They problem the Presidential Orders dated August 5 and 6, 2019 in addition to the ‘Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019’.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
