Supreme Court judge, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, is set to retire on December 25 and is one of the five judges on the Constitution Bench which reserved judgment on the challenge to the dilution of Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special privileges to Jammu and Kashmir.
The Bench, which was headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, reserved the case for verdict on September 5.
Justice Kaul was the senior most puisne judge on the five-judge Constitution Bench. The judgment has to come before Justice Kaul retires from the court in December.