CJI asks if petitioners want Supreme Court to assess government’s ‘wisdom’ in repealing Article 370
The HinduThe Supreme Court on Thursday appeared unenthusiastic to accept an “invitation” to judicially review the “wisdom” behind the Union government’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which had given a special status to Jammu and Kashmir. ‘Bereft of reasons’ The Chief Justice’s queries came in response to submissions by senior advocate Dushyant Dave that the “whole exercise of abrogation of Article 370 was bereft of any reasons”. When the Constituent Assembly dissolved in 1957 without abrogating Article 370, the President’s power to repeal Article 370 died along with it, he said, adding that the constitutional provision then attained permanent status. The spirit of federalism in Article 370 could not have been “wished away” by the President by declaring the entire provision otiose in 2019, Mr. Dave said.