Today the Supreme Court is hearing the petitions filed against the removal of Article 370. During this important hearing, Attorney General KK Venugopal informed about Jammu and Kashmir's joining the Indian Union. He said, "During this time 'it cannot be changed. I would like to state that the sovereignty of Jammu and Kashmir was indeed temporary. We are a union of states." Significantly, on 5 August last year, the central government decided to divide Jammu Kashmir into two parts and remove Article 370. There are petitions against this decision, which are being heard.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court said that it would refer the issue of Article 370 to a larger 7-judge bench only when there were contradictions between the two earlier decisions of the Supreme Court. The court said that the petitioners show a direct contradiction between the two decisions - Prem Nath Kaul vs Jammu and Kashmir in 1959 and Sampat Prakash vs Jammu and Kashmir in 1970 only when the matter would be referred to a larger bench. Both decisions were delivered by a 5-judge bench.

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On hearing the reference on Wednesday, the 5-judges constitution bench headed by Justice Jammu Ramana was told by the Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association that the Center to repeal Article 370 on August 5 last year that the verdict was invalid. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice R. Subhash Reddy, Justice BR Gavai and Justice Surya, headed by Justice NV Ramana, is hearing the case. During the hearing on Wednesday, the bench said that you have to show that there is direct opposition to the two decisions of the apex court. Only then will we send it to the big bench. You have to show us that they were a direct contradiction.

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