NEW DELHI – Over the Article 370 petitions on Indian Occupied Kashmir, Newdevelopments have been reported from the Indian Supreme Court, media hasreported.
The Indian Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday fixed November 14 for hearing onpetitions challenging constitutional validity of the Centre’s decision toabrogate Article 370 that gave special status to Indian Occupied Kashmir(IoK).
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice N V Ramana allowed theCentre and the Jammu and Kashmir administration to file counter-affidavitson petitions challenging scrapping of Article 370.
The bench said one week time would be for the petitioners to file theirreplies to the counter-affidavit that would be filed by the Centre andJammu and Kashmir administration within four weeks.
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“We have to allow the Centre and the IoK administration to filecounter-affidavit otherwise we can’t decide the matter,” the bench alsocomprising justices S K Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai and Surya Kantsaid.
