Article 370 Case : Live Updates From Supreme Court [Day 8]

The bench rises for the day.

CJI: Can you put down everything on one page? So that we have clarity on your submissions.

CJI: Dr Guruswamy, we won't hear on delimitation. Delimitation is not an issue at all. We'll request you to also formulate a page on internal sovereignty.

Ramakrishnan: First point is that integration is neither a linear concept nor a quantitative concept. There is a spoken and unspoken assumption that Art 370 is temporary in anticipation of some greater...

CJI: When a group of petitions come together, one lawyer appears for all. We are more than willing to hear Mr Beig's perspective but Mr Javed Bhatt will have to withdraw from this petition and can come as an intervenor.

Sr Adv Nitya: I don't want to argue for them. I'm arguing for PDP.

Counsel: Mr Beig will argue with permission of my lords

CJI: Ordinarily there is no difficulty but when the entire group of petitioners is there, we presume that they're sailing together.

CJI: So one lawyer would appear for all petitioners. For diff respondents, different lawyers can appear.

Counsel: When he got to know that he had withdrawn from the matter, he contacted a senior lawyer from Kashmir, Mr Muzaffar Hussain Beig who...

Sr Adv Nitya: I don't know any of this. I am arguing for PDP now. If any of this is here, my lords can hear as impleadment

Ramakrishnan: I also represent petitioners where Mr Ramachandran was appearing.

Counsel: This WP was filed by 6 people. Two of them withdrew. Petitioner 1 - Javed Bhatt, when he engaged, he was told Sr Adv Raju Ramachandran would be arguing the matter.

Ramakrishnan: I was heading the government at the time of Governor's rule. I have held govt twice before. I suggest a much more representative will...

Sr Adv Nitya Ramakrishnan commences her arguments.