[India] - From August 2, daily hearings in SC on Article 370 pleas

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to begin day-to-day-hearing from August 2 on a batch of petitions challenging the
submissions, a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices SK Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant laid down strict
existing on July 27
We cannot allow the proceedings to become unwieldy with counsel deciding to submit lengthy written submissions and voluminous documents even
petitioners and the government respectively to ensure a common compilation was prepared for the court and every counsel appearing in the
case.Original petitioners, IAS officer Shah Faesal and former JNU vice-president and AISA member Shehla Rashid, through senior advocate Raju
Ramachandran requested the court to delete their names from the array of parties
The court accepted their request
Faesal had resigned from the civil services to float a political party but later rejoined service
In January, the Delhi LG had given sanction for prosecution of Rashid for tweeting unverified allegations against Army operations in
August 5, 2019 decision.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta said the affidavit was meant only to apprise the court of the post-2019 situation in
affidavit was widely reported in the media, the CJI said it was not relevant for the purpose of adjudicating the validity of the
Constitution (Application to Jammu - Kashmir) Order, 2019, which superseded the Constitution (Application to Jammu - Kashmir) Order, 1954,
as well as the addition of Clause 4 to Article 367 making the Constitution of India applicable to J-K
Before its defanging, Article 370, supposed to be a temporary provision, gave special status to J-K for 70 years.After an advocate
complained that his PIL, though filed first, was listed way down among the bunch of petitions, the CJI-led bench decided to list the cases