Srinagar, Oct 09: Srinagar, Oct 09: The Supreme Court will hear petitions seeking the restoration of Jammu & Kashmir’s statehood on Friday.

The petitions are listed at serial number 17 before the Court of Chief Justice of India (CJI). “The case is listed for hearing on October 10 before a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India,” advocate Soayib Qureshi said.

He said that Union of India has not filed any response on the matter yet.

On August 14, during the hearing of a petition for restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court had stated that the real situation on the ground must be considered and that incidents such as the Pahalgam attack cannot be overlooked.

“You must also take into account the ground realities; you cannot ignore what happened in Pahalgam,” said a

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