Supreme Court hearing on Article 370 abrogation | Day 3
The HinduSenior advocate Kapil Sibal on August 8 apprised a Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Gavai, and Surya Kant, has been adjudicating upon a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that bestowed special status on the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir. The court on August 3 asked whether Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, is being equated to the Basic Structure of the Constitution. During the hearing, Chief Justice D.Y Chandrachud enquired as to whether Article 370 was a provision in the Constitution that lay beyond the amending powers of the Constitution. The court had earlier also raised the question as to whether the President’s power to declare inoperative Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, will not continue to hold the field after the dissolution of the erstwhile State’s Constituent Assembly on January 26, 1957.