The five-Judge Bench had on January 23 reserved its order on this issue
Current Affairs:The Supreme Court would not allude to a bigger seat a clump of requests, testing the established legitimacy of Center’s choice of annulling arrangements of Article 370. The pinnacle court said that it didn’t discover any motivation to allude the issue to a bigger seat.
The five-Judge Bench headed by Justice NV Ramana and containing Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant had on January 23 saved its request on this issue.
Restricting the request, the Center had said that revocation of arrangements of Article 370, which allowed extraordinary status to past province of Jammu and Kashmir, has become a “fait accompli” leaving sole alternative to acknowledge the change.
NGO People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association and an intervenor had looked for referral to a bigger seat.
The NGO looked for the referral on the ground that two decisions of peak court – Prem Nath Kaul versus Jammu and Kashmir in 1959 and Sampat Prakash versus Jammu and Kashmir in 1970 – which managed the issue of Article 370 are in direct clash one another and in this manner the present seat of five adjudicators couldn’t hear the issue.
Aditi Mehta 