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

Sibal: He is a member of parliament today. He has sworn to the constitution of India. He is a citizen of India. How can he say otherwise? And if anyone has said it, at my level, I deprecate it.

Sibal: I'm not standing for him or what he said, if he said it.

CJI: Mr Sibal, do we take it that Mr Lone unconditionally accepts the sovereignty of India and that J&K is an integral part of India?

Justice Kaul: They say that your first petitioner (Mohammad Akbar Lone) has said something which is not in sync...

Sibal: I'm not concerned with that. If he has said it, in what circumstances, is it recorded, you ask him for an affidavit.

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: At the outset, I wish to state that this case has been argued at several lengths and most of them unsolicited, without reference to the arguments made by us. I don't think anyone on this side challenged the sovereignty of India.

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: At the outset, I wish to state that this case has been argued at several lengths and most of them unsolicited, without reference to the arguments made by us. I don't think anyone on this side challenged the sovereignty of India.

The respondents have concluded their arguments.

The bench has reconvened.

CJI: We will hear you after lunch.

The bench rises for lunch.

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal requests to file his response to submissions made by respondents.

SG Mehta: They're longer than the main submissions.

Sibal: You have filed hundreds of documents, I never objected.

Counsel: The violations of rights of those persecuted is so extensive that it has been recognised as a great human rights violation in 2019- violation which is considered international crime in international law, therefore attracts customary international law and jus cogens norm