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Upholding the Centre’s decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court validated the Parliament’s power to make changes to Article 370 and clearly rejected the argument that the erstwhile state ever had the exceptionalism of “internal sovereignty”. A significant verdict, by all…

SC: President's actions during State emergency open to judicial scrutiny; must have reasonable nexus with object sought to be achieved. Onus on petitioner to prima facie establish mala fide or extraneous exercise of power; onus shifts to Centre to justify if prima facie case made out.

Article 370 is a temporary provision with a transitional purpose and was an interim wartime arrangement, noted the Supreme Court while unanimously upholding the Narendra Modi government’s decision to de-operationalise the legislation on Monday.

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the power of the President to abrogate Article 370 in August 2019, leading to the reorganisation of the full-fledged State of Jammu and Kashmir to two Union Territories and denuding it of its special privileges