All petitions pertaining to the situation in Jammu & Kashmir will be taken up by the Constitution Bench set up to hear the challenge to the abrogation of Article 370..The three-Judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer today directed for all petitions relating to issues in the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir to be placed before the “Kashmir Bench”..These include petitions pertaining to the communication and media blockade in Kashmir, the alleged illegal detention of children, and the impact on healthcare and medical services in the Valley..A fresh petition filed by CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami, which challenges the validity of the revocation of Article 370, was also tagged with other similar petitions on the subject..The Kashmir Bench comprising Justices NV Ramana, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, Bhushan Gavai and Surya Kant will begin hearing the matters from Tuesday, October 1..The Supreme Court had, on August 28, referred the issue to a five-Judge Constitution Bench..The first petition in this regard was filed by advocate ML Sharma..Subsequently, Kashmiri lawyer Shakir Shabir had approached the Court challenging the Presidential Order of August 5. It was his argument that the amendment to Article 367 which resulted in the scrapping of Article 370 could not have been done in the manner in which it was done..Later, two Lok Sabha MPs belonging to the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Party – Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi – had approached the Supreme Court challenging the Presidential Order of August 5..Further, retired Military Officers and bureaucrats have also filed a petition in the Supreme Court the Presidential Orders..Besides the above, notice has also been issued in a petition filed by Soayib Qureshi, a permanent resident of Jammu & Kashmir and a practising lawyer of the Apex Court.
All petitions pertaining to the situation in Jammu & Kashmir will be taken up by the Constitution Bench set up to hear the challenge to the abrogation of Article 370..The three-Judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer today directed for all petitions relating to issues in the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir to be placed before the “Kashmir Bench”..These include petitions pertaining to the communication and media blockade in Kashmir, the alleged illegal detention of children, and the impact on healthcare and medical services in the Valley..A fresh petition filed by CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami, which challenges the validity of the revocation of Article 370, was also tagged with other similar petitions on the subject..The Kashmir Bench comprising Justices NV Ramana, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, Bhushan Gavai and Surya Kant will begin hearing the matters from Tuesday, October 1..The Supreme Court had, on August 28, referred the issue to a five-Judge Constitution Bench..The first petition in this regard was filed by advocate ML Sharma..Subsequently, Kashmiri lawyer Shakir Shabir had approached the Court challenging the Presidential Order of August 5. It was his argument that the amendment to Article 367 which resulted in the scrapping of Article 370 could not have been done in the manner in which it was done..Later, two Lok Sabha MPs belonging to the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Party – Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi – had approached the Supreme Court challenging the Presidential Order of August 5..Further, retired Military Officers and bureaucrats have also filed a petition in the Supreme Court the Presidential Orders..Besides the above, notice has also been issued in a petition filed by Soayib Qureshi, a permanent resident of Jammu & Kashmir and a practising lawyer of the Apex Court.
