New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution bench led by Justice N V Ramana will hear pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to scrap Article 370 from Tuesday. The court will also take up individual petitions on alleged restrictions imposed in the Valley and lack of access to basic facilities.
A special bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said it had no time to hear the cases since it was busy with another Constitution bench matter. A CJI-led bench has been hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute suit on a daily basis for more than a month now.
The newly constituted bench is scheduled to start hearing the batch of petitions on J&K from October 1. CJI Gogoi said petitions challenging restrictions on the media would also be taken up by the bench headed by Justice Ramana on Tuesday itself.
On August 5, the Centre moved to end special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the region into two union territories. A day later, Parliament passed the changes in the form Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019.
