Supreme Court to hear petitions challenging abrogation of Article 370 on 11 July

Supreme Court of India will hear the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the constitution on 11 July. A release from the apex court informed that the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud-led five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will hear the case.

The constitution bench comprises Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant.

The apex court will take the batch of over 20 petitions which have challenged the constitutional validity of the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution of India which snatched away the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

Moreover, the Centre also decided to bifurcate the state into two Union Territories namely UT of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh. The petitions have claimed that constitutional provisions were violated while making the decision.

Shah Faesal withdrew from petition

Supreme Court will also take the decision on the withdrawal of the petition by IAS officer Shah Faesal. In September last year, Shah Faesal approached the apex court with a request seeking the withdrawal of his name from the list of petitioners who challenged the abrogation of Article 370.

The request to withdraw his name from the petition came as the government decided to accept his application to withdraw his resignation from the service and reinstated him as an IAS officer in April 2022.

The issue of Article 370 is sensitive for Jammu and Kashmir and recently PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti urged Supreme Court to hear the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370. “We want to invite the attention of the CJI to the petitions which are pending in the Supreme Court for the last four years and also towards the plight of … people, especially the youth who are in jails within and outside J-K without any trial,” she said.