Today, a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court agrees to hear Petitions challenging the Scrapping of J&K Special Status on July 11.

The petition was filed by Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Shah Faesal.

The five-judge Constitution bench consists of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant.

Back in 2019, the Special status of Jammu and Kashmir was scrapped and the state was divided into two Union Territories.

Before the Special status of Jammu and Kashmir, Article 370 of the Indian Constitution gave Jammu and Kashmir its own constitution and decision-making rights for all matters barring defence, communications and foreign affairs. Its removal ended the special status for Kashmir, which was key to its accession to India in 1947.

The politics of Jammu and Kashmir had been dominated by the National Conference, the Congress and later Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP.