Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 25: The Supreme Court decided on Monday to consider listing the petitions challenging the Centre’s intention to repeal portions of Article 370 that granted Jammu and Kashmir special status after the summer recess.
The remarks of senior counsel Shekhar Naphade, standing for one of the petitioners, that the case deserved an urgent hearing in light of the state’s delimitation exercise were noted by a bench consisting of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Hima Kohli.
“This is the Article 370 matter. The delimitation is also going on,” the senior lawyer said.
“Let me see,” the CJI said, adding, “This is a five-judge matter. I will have to reconstitute the bench.”
The apex court also agreed to re-constitute a five-judge bench to hear pleas after summer vacation.
Several petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to repeal Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which divides J&K into two Union Territories , Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were referred to a Constitution Bench led by Justice N V Ramana by then-CJI Ranjan Gogoi in 2019.
