A five-judge bench, led by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, will hear petitions challenging the Presidential Order of August 5-6, 2019, and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. In a move that will address lingering uncertainty surrounding the legality of the Modi government’s decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court is finally set to schedule hearings on a batch of 23 petitions challenging the August 2019 move. The matter was last heard in March 2020 before going in to limbo. The court today…
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