Article 370 Back In Supreme Court, Day-To-Day Hearing From Aug 2; Two Petitioners Withdraw Names

New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, on Tuesday posted the hearing of a batch of pleas, challenging the abrogation from of Article 370, on August 2.

The hearing of 23 writ petitions would start at 10.30 am and proceed on a day-to-day basis, except Monday and Friday, it said.

The apex court also allowed the deletion of names of activist Shehla Rashid Shora and bureaucrat Shah Faesal from the list of petitioners, who had challenged the Centre’s decision made on August 5, 2019, to revoke the special status granted under Article 370 to Jammu & Kashmir, bifurcating the state into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

On Monday, the central government, in its affidavit, told the SC that the move to scrap Article 370 has led to an “unprecedented era of peace” in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. “Jammu and Kashmir was facing the brunt of terrorism for the last three decades. To curb it, the only way was to remove Article 370. Today, all necessary institutions including schools, colleges, industries are running normally in the Valley. Industrial development is happening and people who lived in fear are living peacefully.”