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In the first functional hours of the Monsoon Session, the Opposition also argued that the Bill goes against federal principles envisaged in the Constitution and questioned the legislative competence of Parliament to enact it.
India’s top court Wednesday began hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the legislation passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 that stripped disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, scrapped its separate constitution and removed inherited protections on land and jobs. The five-judge constitutional bench that includes the Supreme Court’s chief justice is simultaneously hearing a series of petitions challenging the special status granted to the region after its accession with newly independent India in 1947.
India’s top court takes up case four years after unprecedented decision to scrap region’s autonomy
জম্মু ও কাশ্মীরে ৩৭০ ধারা প্রত্যাহার করা নিয়ে কেন্দ্র এবং মামলাকারীদের বক্তব্য শুনবে দেশের প্রধান বিচারপতি ডিওয়াই চন্দ্রচূড়ের নেতৃত্বাধীন পাঁচ সদস্যের সাংবিধানিক বেঞ্চ।
Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that 29 Constitution Bench matters were pending before the Supreme Court of India as on July 20, 2023.