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The Supreme Court on Monday said that they will consider the listing of a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir before a 5 judges bench after vacations.

The matter was mentioned before a bench of the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justice Hima Kohli by Senior Advocate Shekhar Naphade.

Naphade submitted that the matter needs to be listed as the delimitation proceedings are going to commence soon.

Earlier, the Central Government had constituted a Delimitation Commission to mark boundaries in the Territory for all the constituencies before an assembly election can be held.

One of the petitions had stated that "Article 370 of the Constitution of India is a self-contained Code which defined and regulated the relationship between the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union of India. Apart from Article 370, Article 1 of the Constitution of India would apply to the State of J & K."

“The challenge to the Constitutional validity ought to be heard on an expedited basis otherwise the petition itself would be rendered infructuous in view of the irreversible actions of the Respondents and the Applicant would be rendered remediless,” the applicant added.

Case Title: Batch of plea’s