Supreme Court dismisses plea hearing in Larger Bench over removal of Article 370

(PTI) New Delhi, Ta. March 2, 2020, Monday

The petitioners demanded that the Larkar Bench be heard in the petition challenging the decision to cancel Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir. The Supreme Court rejected the demand and categorically refused to hear the petition before a seven-judge bench.

The petition challenging the writ petition of Jammu and Kashmir was canceled in the Supreme Court. The petitioners also demanded that a larger bench of seven or nine judges be heard.

A hearing was held in that regard, in which the Supreme Court said that since there was no specific reason for the hearing of the Larger Bench, only a Bench of five judges would hold the next hearing on the issue.

Jammu and Kashmir will hold a simultaneous hearing on 23 separate applications for the cancellation of 370 articles. The petitioners cited two different contradictory rulings of a five-judge bench, demanding that the larger bench hold a hearing on this special case.

In 1959, Premnath Kaur Versus Jammu and Kashmir case and Sampat Prakash Versus Jammu and Kashmir's 1970 case went to a bench of five judges. Citing the differences between the judges, the petition demanded a hearing in the Larger Bench.

A five-judge bench, headed by Supreme Court Justice NV Ramana, ruled that the 370-section case would not go to the Larger Bench. Since there is no such requirement in the case, only a bench of five judges will hear.