NEW DELHI, March 2 -- THE Supreme Court Monday declined to refer to a larger 7-judge bench a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Centre's decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 on Aug 5, 2019.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice NV Ramana said there were no reasons to refer the matter to a larger bench.
NGO, People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association and an intervenor had sought referring of the matter to a larger bench on the ground that two judgements of the apex court -- Prem Nath Kaul versus J&K in 1959 and Sampat Prakash versus J&K in 1970 -- which dealt with the issue of Article 370 were conflicted each other and therefore, the current be...