Supreme Court of India

In Re: Article 370 of the Constitution v..

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Reported as [2023] 16 S.C.R. 1
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, B. R. Gavai and Surya Kant JJ.
Decided 11 December 2023

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Judgment, page 290

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Issues for consideration: Article 370 of the Constitution of India incorporated special arrangements for the governance of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The President issued Constitutional Orders 272 and 273 during the subsistence of a Proclamation under Article 356(1)(b) which orders had the eff ect of applying the entire Constitution of India to the State of Jammu and Kashmir and abrogating Article 370. Contemporaneously, the Parliament enacted the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019 which bifurcated the State into two Union territories, namely, the Union Territory of Jammu and

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