India, Aug. 5 -- The Supreme Court will on August 8 hear a plea urging the Union government to restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, the Live Law reported today.

The application was mentioned today before Chief Justice of India BR Gavai by Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who requested that the matter not be removed from the cause list for that day. The CJI agreed to the request.

The application has been filed as a Miscellaneous Application in the already disposed of case regarding Article 370, in which the Supreme Court had upheld the Centre's 2019 move to abrogate the region's special status. However, the verdict had not ruled on the constitutionality of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which downgraded the erstw...