The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the response of the Centre and the Jammu & Kashmir government to a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of two decisions — the presidential order scrapping the state’s special status under Article 370 and Parliament’s approval of a law splitting it into Union territories of J&K and Ladakh.
Deciding to refer the petitions to a five-judge Constitution bench which will hear the matter in October, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer refused to reconsider its order on issuing a notice to the Centre. It brushed aside repeated pleas by attorney general K K Venugopal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta not to issue notice on the controversial issue.
 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the response of the Centre and the Jammu & Kashmir government to a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of two decisions — the presidential order scrapping the state’s special status under Article 370 and Parliament’s approval of a law splitting it into Union territories of J&K and Ladakh.
Deciding to refer the petitions to a five-judge Constitution bench which will hear the matter in October, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer refused to reconsider its order on issuing a notice to the Centre. It brushed aside repeated pleas by attorney general K K Venugopal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta not to issue notice on the controversial issue.