Priya Aditi
The SC is scheduled to begin hearing petitions challenging the repeal of Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to the former state of Jammu and Kashmir, on August 2.
Beginning on Wednesday, a five-judge constitution committee led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud will conduct daily hearings.
The bench, which also consists of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant, set the deadline for written submissions and convenience compilations as July 27 on July 11.
The five-judge bench stated that hearings will be conducted on a daily basis, except on Mondays and Fridays, which are days when the supreme court hears diverse cases. On these days, only new petitions for admission hearings are considered; regular matters are not heard.
It appointed two solicitors, one from the petitioners’ side and one from the government’s side, to prepare a convenience compilation and file it by July 27, and made it plain that no documents will be accepted after that date. A convenience note provides the court with an overview of the entire case so that it can swiftly comprehend the facts.
It had stated that the Centre’s affidavit regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir after the 5 August 2019 notification repealing Article 370 would have no consequence on the constitutional issue to be decided by the five-judge bench.
On that day, the former state of Jammu and Kashmir was divested of its special status and split into two union territories.
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Several petitions challenging the repeal of Article 370 and the 2019 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which divided the former state into Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, were referred to a Constitution tribunal in 2019.
