Abrogation of Article 370: India SC to hold 'day-to-day' plea hearings from Aug 2

India's Supreme Court today said it would begin "day-to-day" hearings from August 2 on petitions challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that gave a special status on the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.

A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which passed several procedural directions, fixed July 27 as the deadline for filing of written submissions and convenience compilations by different parties, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

The bench, also comprising justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant, said the hearing on the batch of petitions will be held on a day-to-day basis except on Mondays and Fridays, which are days for hearing miscellaneous matters in the apex court.

The top court appointed two lawyers, one from the petitioner's side and the government side, to prepare convenience compilation and file it before July 27 and made it clear that after that said date no documents will be accepted.

The five-judge bench said the government's affidavit filed on Monday with regard to conditions prevailing post August 5, 2019 notification in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir have no bearing on the constitutional issue to be adjudicated by the five-judge Constitution bench. The government's affidavit has defended the abrogation of Article 370.

The Modi government had on August 5, 2019, decided to strip the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir of special status and bifurcate it into two federally-administered geographical territories.

Several petitions challenging the government's decision to abrogate Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019, which split J-K into two separate federally-ruled territories Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh were referred to a Constitution bench in 2019.