When the petition challenging Article 35A comes up for hearing in the Supreme Court, the three-judge bench will take a call on whether the constitutional provision, which has withstood the test of the time, should be referred to a Constitution bench. During the previous hearing on August 6, Chief Justice of India Deepak Mishra observed that Article 35A has been there since 1954. “Article 35A didn’t come in the Constitution in a day. We cannot hear it in a day. This will be argued,” the CJI had said. Senior advocate…
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