SRINAGAR: The Supreme Court docket is prone to pronounce its verdict within the long-pending case difficult the modification of Article 370, in December 2023, Reside Legislation reported.
A five-judge Structure Bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard intensive arguments by each the petitioners and the federal government over sixteen days.
The petitioners within the matter challenged the abrogation of 370 that granted particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and likewise the JK Reorganization Act which bifurcated the State into Union Territories of J&Okay and Ladakh on the bottom that they’re unconstitutional.
With Justice SK Kaul retiring from the Supreme Court docket on December 25, 2023, and December 15, 2023, being the final working day for the Supreme Court docket earlier than winter holidays, the judgment would possible come out quickly.
The petitioners had argued that the abrogation was an assault on federalism and a fraud performed on the Structure. Additionally they identified that the 2019 Act is unconstitutional since Article 3 doesn’t give the Parliament powers to downgrade federal democratic States right into a much less consultant type similar to a Union Territory.
Quite the opposite, the Union authorities contended that the abrogation was essential to utterly combine J&Okay into the Union of India and that elections within the valley can be carried out as quickly as normalcy returns on the bottom.
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