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The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the batch of petitions challenging central government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution on 11 December. The 5-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud heard the matter for 16 days and reserved its verdict on 5 September. The petitioners has termed the government’s decision as an attack on the federal structure of India and “fraud on the Constitution.”
The other judges on the bench include Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant.
The batch of over 20 petitions filed through senior lawyers including Kapil Sibal, Gopal Subramanium, Rajeev Dhavan, Dushyant Dave and Gopal Sankaranarayanan submitted that the government misused its brute majority in Parliament to issue executive orders and divide the state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Earlier in 2020, the petitioners requested the court to transfer the case to a
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Published: 07 Dec 2023, 10:48 PM IST
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