Article 370 Case : Live Updates From Supreme Court [Day 15]

CJI: We will hear you for Mr Lone as well. There's no difficulty. He has come to our court, we're duty bound to hear his submissions. All that we want to say here is that everyone we have here, because we've had people from across the political spectrum in J&K, it's welcome.

Sibal: There is also another petitioner- Justice Masoodi, let me argue for him. You want to take any action against him, do it but please don't derail pure legal submission.

CJI: We proceed on the basis that he is willing to file an affidavit before our court that he owes allegiance like any other citizen of India and that J&K is an integral part of India.

SG: Let him say that he doesn't support terrorism and secessionism. No citizen can have any objection in filing that.

Sibal: It's not part of record, it's withdrawn, it's deleted. BJP speaker was there. He was asked to say something which people ask other people to say on the streets of this country. Why do we need to go into this?

Sibal: What has happened, it'll only lead to a media coverage. Let us not go that route. We're arguing pure constitutional issue. There was a speaker of the BJP who was present there when this allegedly happened. There are some people who asked him to say something he didn't say

Justice Khanna: When you argue, you accept the sovereignty of people of India. You accept that J&K is an integral part. When your client says something outside this court... probably then he is also accepting there was an issue to be dealt with.

Sibal: He's a member of lok sabha, he's a citizen.

CJI: That's a submission Mr Sibal but we want to have it from him that he unconditionally accepts that J&K is an integral part of India and that he abides by and owes allegiance to Constitution of India.

CJI: Mr Sibal, when he invokes the jurisdiction of our court under Art 32 of the Constitution, he necessarily abides by the Constitution.

CJI: Let us reflect on it.

Sibal: I'm not to answer allegations on him.

SG Mehta: It is one thing for Mr Sibal to deprecate it. A litigant before your lordships has said...

Sibal: Ask him to file an affidavit, I have nothing to do with it.

SG: It's your client.