New Delhi: The Supreme Court expressed Friday anguish over ‘defective’ petitions challenging scrapping of provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the petition by advocate ML Sharma challenging the scrapping of Article 370 has ‘no meaning’.
“What kind of petition is this? It could have been dismissed but there are five other pleas with the registry,” the bench also comprising SA Bobde and SA Najeer said.
“You are not praying for setting aside the Presidential order. What is the prayer it is not clear. It can be dismissed on technical grounds,” the bench said and added that there were five other petitions in the registry which are defective.
CJI Ranjan Gogoi said he spent 30 minutes reading the petition on Article 370 but could not make out anything. The apex court asked lawyers to cure defects in their six petitions on Article 370 and adjourned the hearing.
The bench also noted that it was hearing the petition on Article 370 by breaking the combination of judges hearing the sensitive Ayodhya matter.
PTI