Review petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court challenging its decision to uphold the deletion of Article 370 of the Constitution, which had conferred a special status to the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Article 370 Verdict | J &K Special Status Live Updates: The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on a batch of petitions, including those filed by National Conference and People's Democratic Party, challenging the validity of the Centre's 2019 decisions to scrap the nearly 70-year-old special status for J&K under Article 370 and its bifurcation into two Union Territories. The hearing by a five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai and Surya Kant commenced on August 2, lasted 16 days over a 35-day period and the order was reserved on September 5.
The Court held that Article 370 was only a transitory provision enacted due to wartime conditions in J&K and it was meant to serve a transitional purpose.