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The Supreme Court has asked the Indian government if there is a specific timeline for restoring full statehood in Jammu and Kashmir. The court raised the question during a hearing on petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370, which converted Jammu and Kashmir into a Union territory. The Chief Justice of India suggested that the government should consider stating that Jammu and Kashmir will be a Union territory for a specific period to bring stability.

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Attorney General R Venkataramani submitted that the opinion of the J&K Constituent Assembly on the abrogation of Article 370 was to be interpreted as a recommendatory one.

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While stating that the status of Union Territory will not be a permanent feature of Jammu and Kashmir, SG Tushar Mehta said that Ladakh would, however, remain one.

Hearing pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, a Constitution Bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud remarked that the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be a “Union Territory in permanence".

J&K cannot be a Union Territory permanently, CJI DY Chandrachud said during the hearing.

The Central government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that “Union Territory is not a permanent feature” after the Constitution Bench asked the Attorney General and Solicitor General to seek instructions from the Centre over the timeframe to restore statehood of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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The Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Union Territory (UT) status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is not a “permanent thing” and that it will make an elaborate statement on the vexatious political issue in the court on August 31.  The Central Government’s response was