Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 14: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Wednesday consented to list the applications against the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Constitution.
A bench made up of Justice PS Narasimha and Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard the case.
“We will examine and give a date”, CJI said.
The pleas would ‘definitely’ be listed after the Dusshera break, according to former Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, who made similar a statement earlier. The petitions were not listed, though.
It should be mentioned that in 2019, a Constitution Bench made up of Justices N V Ramana, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai, and Surya Kant was assigned to hear the petitions. One of the judges, Justice Subhash Reddy, retired in January of this year.
Nearly 4 months after the Center’s notifications were released in August 2019, the hearings on the Article 370 cases began before the 5-judge bench in December 2019. In light of the claimed disagreement in the decisions offered by two coordinate Supreme Court benches in the cases of Prem Nath Kaul and Sampath Prakash, a preliminary question emerged in the case as to whether a referral to a 7-judge bench was required. The Constitution Bench ruled on March 2, 2020, that there was no need to transfer the dispute over the constitutionality of the Presidential Orders issued under Article 370 to a larger Bench.
Since March 2, 2020, the petitions have not been listed.
