On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to look at the cases against the government’s decision to change Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir special rights.
Shekhar Naphade, a senior lawyer for one of the petitioners, told a bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Hima Kohli that the petition should be heard as soon as possible because of the delimitation process in the state.
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Article 370 is the subject here, and it’s essential The senior lawyer also said that “delimitation” was going on, which is true.
This is a five-judge case, the CJI said. I will have to put the bench back together. The court agreed to re-form a five-judge bench to hear pleas after the summer break.
Petitioners unhappy with the government’s decision to change Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which splits J-K into two Union Territories, were sent to a Constitution Bench led by Justice N V Ramana in 2019. The then Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, did this in 2019.
