Tag: kashmirs

NEW DELHI: Commencing hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Centre’s August 2019 decision to scrap Jammu & Kashmir’s special status by hollowing Article 370, the Supreme Court on Wednesday focused on the most basic question — how the constitutional provision, explicitly referred to as temporary, assumed permanence to prohibit its annulment.This query from a bench of the SC’s top five judges — CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay K Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant — was addressed to National Conference...