Urging the Supreme Court to weigh the constitutional implications for India’s federal structure, petitioners on Friday (October 10, 2025) pressed the Union Government to honour its ‘solemn promise’ of restoring Jammu and Kashmir ’s Statehood.

A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union Government, to respond to the submissions within four weeks, even as it acknowledged that “various considerations” had to be factored in while making such a decision, including the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack .

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The Bench was hearing an application seeking the restoration of Statehood wit

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