Putting a ban on new petitions testing the administration's choice on Article 370, the Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed November 14 to begin hearing a clump of petitions testing the Constitutional legitimacy of the alteration to Article 370 repudiating the extraordinary status for Jammu and Kashmir.
A five-judge seat headed by Justice N V Ramana permitted Center a month time to document counter-sworn statements to the cases, and multi week time for the applicant to record a response. The top court which is as of now seized of numerous petitions in the issue said it won't engage any more petitions.
"We need to permit the Center and the J&K organization to document counter-sworn statement else we can't choose the issue," the seat additionally containing judges S K Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai and Surya Kant said.
On Monday, a seat headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi moved all petitions pending before it to the Constitution Bench headed by Justice N V Ramana. The seat was comprised particularly to hear matters identified with Article 370 beginning Tuesday.
These incorporate supplications by Anuradha Bhasin, official editorial manager of Kashmir Times paper; the habeas corpus request by CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury addressing confinement of gathering associate Yusuf Tarigami; and Congress pioneer Ghulam Nabi Azad looking for consent to make a trip to J&K.
The Presidential Order, as indicated by the applicants, utilized "a brief circumstance intended to hold the field until the arrival of the chosen government, to achieve a key, perpetual, and irreversible adjustment of the status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir without the simultaneousness, counsel or proposal of the individuals of that State, acting through their chosen agents".
This, they stated, added up to a "medium-term repeal of the vote based rights and opportunities ensured to the individuals of the State… upon its increase".
Petitions have additionally been documented by previous IAS official Shah Faesal, lobbyist Shehla Rashid, and promoters Shakir Shabir, ML Sharma, Vineet Dhanda, and others.
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