SC allows Yechury to visit J&K, five-judge Constitution Bench to hear pleas regarding abrogation of Article 370

Supreme Court has issued notice to centre and Jammu and Kashmir government on all Article 370 cases. Tushar Mehta said that formal notices may have deeper repurcussions and AG Venugopal said that SC proceedings may be raked up in United Nations. 

However, Supreme Court issued notices and hearing will start from October by a five-member judge regarding constitutional validity of abrogation of Article 370. 

Supreme Court also issued a notice to the Centre on the plea by Kashmir Times Executive Editor, Anuradha Bhasin, seeking a direction for relaxing restrictions on the internet, landline, & other communication channels. SC sought a detailed response from the Centre within 7 days.

SC while allowing a student Mohd Aleem Syed and CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury stated that they will not do anything in J&K other than the purpose of visit for which they were allowed by Court.

The Court said that if they were found to indulge in any activity other than what they were permitted to do, such acts of commission or omission will be seen as a violation of Court order. 

On return, the Court has directed both persons to file a compliance report on the purpose of their visit.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan for instigating violence in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that all matters related to the region are India's internal issues with no room for Pakistan's interference.

Gandhi, in a series of tweets, said he disagrees with the government on many issues but made it clear that aspects related to Jammu and Kashmir are internal for New Delhi.

"I disagree with this Govt. on many issues. But, let me make this absolutely clear: Kashmir is India's internal issue & there is no room for Pakistan or any other foreign country to interfere in it," Rahul said in a series of tweets.

"There is violence in Jammu & Kashmir. There is violence because it is instigated and supported by Pakistan which is known to be the prime supporter of terrorism across the world," Gandhi wrote in another tweet.

This comes after Pakistani Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, on Tuesday said she has a written a letter to 18 UN Special Procedures mandate on Kashmir issue. In her letter, Mazari has claimed that Rahul Gandhi has noted that people are dying in Jammu Kashmir.

Mazari in her letter, which is also posted on her Twitter, to the UN body quoted Gandhi. " ...acts of violence have even been acknowledged by mainstream politicians, such as the Leader of the Congress Party, Mr. Rahul Gandhi who has noted "people dying" in Jammu and Kashmir, in light of events "going very wrong there"," she wrote.- ANI