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NEW DELHI, 11 Dec:<\/strong> The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the government’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, and said that steps should be taken to conduct elections in the assembly by 30 September next year.<\/p>\n Writing the judgment for himself and Justices Gavai and Surya Kant, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said that Article 370 of the Constitution was a temporary provision and the president has the power to revoke it.<\/p>\n \u00a0The apex court also upheld the validity of the decision to carve out the union territory of Ladakh from Jammu & Kashmir in August 2019.<\/p>\n The erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir does not have internal sovereignty different from other states of the country, he said.<\/p>\n “… all provisions of the Indian Constitution can be applied to J&K,” the CJI said.<\/p>\n “We hold the exercise of presidential power to issue constitutional order abrogating Article 370 of Constitution as valid,” the CJI said.<\/p>\n Jammu & Kashmir became an integral part of India and this is evident from Articles 1 and 370, he said while pronouncing the judgment.<\/p>\n “The constituent assembly of J&K was never intended to be permanent body,” the CJI stated.<\/p>\n Article 370, which was abrogated on 5 August, 2019, was an interim arrangement due to war conditions in the erstwhile state, Justice Chandrachud said.<\/p>\n The princely state had become an integral part of India and this is evident from Articles 1 and 370, the CJI said.<\/p>\n The bench, comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices Gavai, Surya Kant, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sanjiv Khanna, assembled at 10:56 am to pronounce the three separate and concurring judgments.<\/p>\n Justices Kaul and Khanna wrote their judgments separately.<\/p>\n The apex court reserved its verdict in the matter on 5 September after a 16-day hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370.<\/p>\n The pronouncement of the verdict by the CJI is underway. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 11 Dec: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the government’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, and said that steps should be taken to conduct elections in the assembly by 30 September next year. Writing the judgment for himself and Justices Gavai […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}