New Delhi: Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench on July 11 said the Centre’s (Govt Of India) fresh affidavit claiming that Jammu and Kashmir witnessed an “unprecedented era of peace, progress and prosperity” following the abrogation of Article 370 on August 4, 2019 has “no bearing on the constitutional challenge” to the repealing of the Article 370 of the Indian Constituion.
The court observed that the Home Ministry affidavit, filed on the eve of the Constitution Bench hearing, only sets out the “perspective of the Union Government regarding the post abrogation of Article 370 developments has no bearing on the issues raised in the petitions and shall not hence be relied upon for that purpose”.
“This case concerns a pure constitutional challenge,” Chief Justice Chandrachud observed.
The hearing has been directed from 2 August.