Article 370 hearing at SC | Centre has no plans to interfere with the special



On August 22, the Supreme Court rejected as "unacceptable" the argument that Article 370 of the Constitution was rendered inoperative after the term of the Jammu and Kashmir constituent assembly expired in 1957, following the adoption of the State's Constitution.

When senior attorney Dinesh Dwivedi, speaking on behalf of intervenor Prem Shankar Jha, argued that nothing of Article 370, which granted the erstwhile State special status, survived once the Constitution of J&K was enacted on January 26, 1957, and the term of the State's constituent Assembly ended, the remark by a five-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud came into play.

The former State of Jammu and Kashmir was divided into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019, after the Centre chose to revoke its special status. Jammu and Kashmir's special status was abolished by the Central Government by repealing Article 370. A Constitution Bench was referred a number of cases in 2019 that contested the repeal of Article 370's provisions and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act of 2019.