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Heading a five-judge Constitution Bench hearing a clutch of petitions challenging changes made by the Centre to Article 370, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said this as the bench posed questions about the status of IoA to Senior Advocate Gopal Subramaninum.

"Negotiations were held in May 1949 on Kashmir’s future set up... Foremost among the topics were the ‘framing of the Constitution for the state (J&K)’ and ‘subjects in respect of which the state should accede to the Union of India’... Nehru wrote to (Sheikh) Abdullah that Patel and he agreed it was a matter for the state’s Constituent Assembly"

The Supreme Court will begin to hear the batch of petitions challenging the decision to abrogate Article 370, which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir, from August 2.

The petitions have not been listed after March 2, 2020, after a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court had declined to refer to a larger seven-judge bench the batch of Article 370 pleas.