SC to begin hearing on Article 370 petitions from August 2

The Supreme Court will hear pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution from August 2. A five-judge constitutional bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud asked the petitioners to file written submissions on or before July 27.

Defending the abrogation of Article 370, the Centre in an affidavit submitted to Supreme Court had claimed that the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed an “unprecedented” era of peace and progress and street violence had become "a thing of the past."

On August 5, 2019, the Centre had decided to strip the erstwhile state of J and K of special status and bifurcate it into two Union Territories.

Several petitions challenging the Centre's decision to abrogate the provisions of Article 370 and split the Himalayan state into two Union Territories--Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh--were referred to a Constitution bench in 2019.