SC To Hear Article 370 Petitions From Today

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice N.V. Ramana, will on Tuesday begin hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to abrogate the special rights of the Kashmiri people by diluting Article 370 and to reorganize the State of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The Bench had earlier chosen not to stay the implementation of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. In a detailed affidavit, the Centre had justified the decision, claiming that the presence of Article 370 in the Constitution for over seven decades had created a “separatist mindset” among the Kashmiris.