SC to begin hearing plea challenging abrogation of Article 370 on 11 July

The Supreme Court has constituted a five-judge constitution bench that will hear on July 11, a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 - that had conferred the special status to J&K - and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, bifurcating the erstwhile state into two Union territories – J&K and Ladakh.

The Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud heading the bench also comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice B.R. Gavai, and Justice Surya Kant will hear the petitions on July 11.

In the past, the matter was mentioned on a number of occasions seeking an early listing but it could not be taken up. The petitions pending since 2019 have not taken up for hearing since March 2020.

“I will take a call on it,” Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, heading a bench, had said when on the last occasion on February 17, 2023, senior advocate Raju Ramachandran mentioned the matter for an urgent listing.