Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution bench says hearing of a batch of pleas challenging the abrogation from of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir will start from August 2.
The hearing of pleas will be on day-to-day basis except Monday and Friday, says Supreme Court.
Supreme Court appoints two advocates as nodal counsels for the preparation of common convenience compilations of documents.
Supreme Court says written submissions shall also be filed on or before July 27 and no further additions to the convenience compilation shall be permissible.
IAS officer Shah Faesal and activist Shehla Rashid don’t want to pursue their pleas against abrogation of Article 370 and seek to delete their names from court records, court allows their request to delete their names as petitioners.
Supreme Court says, now the title of the case will be “In Re: Article 370 of the Constitution”. Earlier, lead petitioner was Shah Faesal.