Keywords: J&K, Article 370, SC
The hearing on the Article 370 case began on August 2, and saw arguments and counter-arguments over a period of 16 days. The Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its judgment on a clutch of pleas challenging the invalidation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which guaranteed special status to state of Jammu and Kashmir. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud reserved the verdict after a marathon of 16- day’s hearing. The pleaders, besides arguing against the cancellation of Article 370, also challenged the J&K Reorganization Act, which bifurcated the state into Union territories of J&K and Ladakh. The bench, also comprising judges Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant, heard the answer arguments of senior lawyers Kapil Sibal, Gopal Subramanium, Rajeev Dhavan, Zaffar Shah, Dushyant Dave and others on the concluding day of the hearing. A wide diapason of issues were bandied during the marathon 16- day hearing including the Constitutional validity of the Centre’s August 5, 2019 decision to abort the provision, the validity of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which resolve the state split into two Union homes, challenges to duty of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir on June 20, 2018 and duty of President’s rule in the state on December 19, 2018 and its extension on July 3, 2019.
Shaikh Rizwan Government Law College,Mumbai, 2nd year interning under Legal vidhya
0 Comments