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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Monday that petitioners are placing Article 370 on a pedestal loftier than the basic structure doctrine of the Constitution and even beyond the reach of the amending powers of the Parliament.The Chief Justice, heading a Constitution Bench hearing the challenge to the repeal of Article 370, was responding to submissions by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, for the petitioner side, that Article 370 (1) had assumed a permanent character as soon as the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly dissolved in 1957...